People who spend time with happy people are more likely to become happy themselves. That’s according to a July 2010 study that examined how emotions spread contagiously.
David Rand: The more friends you have that are content with their lives, the more likely you are to become content. And the more friends you have that are discontent, the more likely you are to become discontent.
via Happiness and Sadness Are Contagious: An Interview With David Rand | Fast Company.
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“In the last several years, psychology has been flipped on its head with the growth and popularity of positive psychology. While psychology traditionally has focused on studying things we want less of such as depression and mental illness, positive psychology has focused on things we want more of: happiness, positive emotions, optimism, strengths, and meaning in life.
“But some psychologists are quick to point out that more is not always better. Too much happiness can make someone exceedingly obnoxious and difficult to relate to. Too much optimism can lead us to make poor decisions and to lose touch with reality. And even strengths in an exaggerated form can become a weakness (as confidence becomes arrogance, honesty becomes brutal, curiosity becomes nosiness, etc.)”
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“In life, we’re told, we must take the good with the bad, and how we view these life events determines our well-being and ability to adjust. But according to Professor Dov Shmotkin of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Psychology, you need more than the right attitude to successfully negotiate the vicissitudes of life.
“As recently reported in Aging and Mental Health, Prof. Shmotkin’s research reveals that people’s well-being and their adaptation can be ascertained by their “time trajectory” — their concept of how they have evolved through their remembered past, currently perceived present, and anticipated future. A close study of how patients compartmentalize their life into these periods can help clinical psychologists treat them more effectively, he says.”
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“Research from a Tel Aviv University (TAU) psychologist shows that the right attitude toward both good times and bad could improve our mental health and helps us to cope with aging.
“A study by Prof. Dov Shmotkin of TAU reveals that people’s wellbeing can be ascertained by their “time trajectory” – the way they perceive their past, present and anticipated future and compartmentalize their life into these periods.”
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via The Effect of Negative Thinking on Health, Wellbeing and Life Span, by Nobel Prize Winner. – Ecademy.
“Can Meditation Affect Telomere Length?” This was the subject of a now famous article on Stress, mindful meditation and their impact on telomere length, by Nobel Prize-winner, Elizabeth Blackburn. The study also addressed the stress, meditation and cancer.
“Dr Blackburn, a graduate of Melbourne University who has worked in the US for many years, launched the study of telomeres, the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes, the discovery of which holds out hope of a deeper understanding of growth, ageing and disease.
In a recent interview Dr Blackburn said telomeres were “like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying. “As we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down.”
She has pursued interdisciplinary research into telomeres, stress, meditation and cancer.”
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The essential value chain – when productive conversations are the source of wealth-creation – is a chain of intangibles: from intelligence to knowledge and wisdom.
The Knowledge of Enterprise
Knowledge we can think of as contextualized information that moves to action. Peter Drucker said “Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody – either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different of more effective action”.
An older Chinese sage said “To know and not to do is not to know”.
The Intelligence of Enterprise
If knowledge calls for a movement to action, how do we determine what action? Organizations are living social systems. What makes them able to evolve and adapt is that they have a nervous system and intelligence just like biological systems do.
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New Everyday Wellbeing Programme starting in Newcastle upon Tyne in October Details here
