Our lives are filled with many, many different experiences. At any given time, there can be many wonderful things going on in your life, at the same time as you are dealing with some “not-so-wonderful” things. What do you focus
A tip for coping with worry
Do you worry? That’s a silly question. Of course you do. Worry is a common phenomenon in daily life, and students are no exception. Worry can be described as the mental distress that occurs when we think about an anticipated
An important tip that comes from very happy people
Psychologists have conducted a lot of research on unhappy people, but, until fairly recently, not much attention has been paid to the study of happy people. Since we know that the vast majority of people think that happiness is extremely
It’s okay to talk to yourself, but, please, watch what you say.
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
You need to plan for the planning fallacy.
We’re at the beginning of a new school year. Fresh start. You’ve got your course outlines; you (hopefully) have looked at tests, assignments and other due dates. This time, you plan on staying on top of things. Good for you!
Returning to school during the time of Covid
To say that these are unprecedented times is an understatement! The risk associated with living through a pandemic, as we have been doing for the past year and a half, is something that very few people today have had any