How Nature Promotes A Deeper Sense Of Wellbeing (M)
The benefits of natural spaces go beyond relaxation, they touch our authentic selves.
Category: Happiness
Why We Sabotage Our Own Happiness By Putting Off Enjoyable Activities (M)
How our brains trick us into avoiding the very things that bring us joy.
11 Tiny Habits That Skyrocket Happiness — Without Reinventing Yourself (P)
Happiness isn’t about big life changes: it’s there in tiny tweaks you can start today.
The Positive Emotional Key To A Successful Career
It is linked to trying harder at difficult tasks, earning more money and being more satisfied at work.
It is linked to trying harder at difficult tasks, earning more money and being more satisfied at work.
Feeling happy leads to success. People who are happy try harder at difficult tasks, earn more money and are more satisfied with their jobs, psychologists have found in multiple studies. While we are often told that working hard will make us happy, the reverse may also be true, perhaps even more so. Happiness is neither a requirement for success nor the only way of achieving it — legendary leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill suffered from depression. However, happiness is linked to higher creativity, curiosity and greater striving for higher goals. The conclusions come from a review of many different studies on the connection between happiness and career success. The study’s authors explain their conclusions:“Happiness is positively associated with job autonomy, job satisfaction, job performance, prosocial behavior, social support, popularity, and income. Happy people also receive more positive peer and supervisor evaluations and are less likely to withdraw from work by becoming habitually absent or burning out.”When people are followed over time, their happiness seems to predict their later success, the authors write:
“…people who are happy at an initial time point are more likely to find employment, be satisfied with their jobs, acquire higher status, perform well, be productive, receive social support, be evaluated positively, engage in fewer withdrawal behaviors, and obtain higher income at a subsequent time point.”Experiments conducted in the lab also point to happiness causing success:
“The experimental research demonstrates that when people are randomly assigned to experience positive emotions, they negotiate more collaboratively, set higher goals for themselves, persist at difficult tasks longer, evaluate themselves and others more favorably, help others more, and demonstrate greater creativity and curiosity than people assigned to experience neutral or negative emotions.”The study was published in the Journal of Career Assessment (Walsh et al., 2018).
This Vital Emotion Enriches Life’s Meaning More Than Happiness & Gratitude (M)
Studies reveal the power of this emotion in our daily sense of purpose — and four ways to boost it.
Study Tests If More Relationship Sex Really Boosts Happiness (M)
Many self-help books claim that more sex in a relationship makes couples happier, but is it really true?
The 5-Minute ‘Microacts’ Of Joy That Boost Happiness In One Week (M)
Researchers found that emotional gains were highest for the socially disadvantaged.
The Nutrient-Rich Food That Increases Happiness 28% (M)
One handful of this food a day can help improve mood.
The Critical Mistake Many Therapists Make When Treating Mental Illness (M)
Distress and well-being are not two sides of the same coin and what that means for treatment.
Why Parenthood Feels Like Both A Blessing And A Burden (M)
Surveys of 43,000 people reveal the complex emotional trade-offs of parenthood.
