We all talk to ourselves, sometimes out loud, most often in our heads, and that’s perfectly natural. In fact, self-talk can help us to understand and organize our experiences, to plan, to learn, to think through problems, to find a
An exercise to increase happiness
Everybody would like to be happy. Research has shown that, in nation after nation, university students rate being happy as extremely important and valuable (6.39 on a 7 point scale). Dr. Tal Ben Shahar, a very popular Harvard psychologist, has
Commit to your goals. Throw your knapsack over the wall!
Tal Ben-Shahar is an Israeli psychologist who writes on the topics of positive psychology and leadership. He has written best-selling books about happiness. While a professor at Harvard University, he created and taught the most popular course in Harvard’s history,
Do you suffer from baby elephant syndrome – Part 2 – An optimistic explanatory style may help
So, let’s say that you read the previous blog and figured out that you may, indeed, be suffering from baby elephant syndrome – that you have carried with you the idea that you are not good enough, or incapable of
Do you suffer from baby elephant syndrome?
Have you heard of the baby elephant syndrome? Maybe you even suffer from it. The idea goes like this: An adult elephant is very large and very strong. It could easily uproot huge trees with its trunk. So how do