Why we fail at predicting what will make us happy
Brain trap #3 or why we are notoriously bad at predicting what will make us happy Did you know that we humans are notoriously bad at predicting what will make us happy? And that both positive and negative events in our life have much less impact – less intensity and less duration – on our […]
Why everything is great and you are grumpy anyway
Brain trap #2: hedonic adaptation or how our brain learns to get used to good things a tiny bit too fast Do you ever have a feeling that your brain stops enjoying good things tiny bit too soon? Don’t worry. It’s not just you. It’s our brains again. Hedonic adaptation (hedonic treadmill) – or why […]
How our brain is messing up our happiness….and what we can do about it
Brain trap #1: negativity bias or why our brain looks for bad stuff Our brain is all about survival. It will do anything it can to protect you from danger (even if dangers and the world very much changed since the times our brain developed) – and it will do a marvellous job at that. […]
4 powerful questions to rewire your brain for more happiness and success
Our brain’s evolutionary purpose has always been to keep us alive: our brain is ideally wired for survival… but our happiness was never very high on the evolution’s list. That means that the natural habits and “wiring” of our brain – as well as the environment and setting of our modern world – are not […]
Powerful story to improve your thinking
You know those stories that make you think – perhaps depress you a tiny bit but also encourage you to more your butt and do something better? This is one of those…. A story of elephants, ropes and choices. “When I was a small boy, I loved going to the circus. Animal acts were my […]
Would you shout at a puppy? A lesson in mindfulness
In meditation, we often focus on working with our attention – perhaps guiding it to our breath or any other object that we choose as the focus of our practice – and also on our attitude of impartial observer, not getting attached in our the thoughts (or anything else) that we are observing and keeping […]
5 books that made me a better person
You know that feeling when you come across a book, and it totally draws you in, full immersion, and creates couple of “aha” moments – but all of these moments being a very gentle natural soft “aha”’s, no shocks or surprises, no feeling like you discovered something crazy new, but more sort of coming back […]
Please don’t pursue happiness, try this instead!
A lot of talking these days about “pursuit of happiness”. (I confess, we are also guilty of sometimes saying that :D) Let’s have a peak into the meaning of the word pursuit (according to the dictionary): 1. the action of pursuing someone or something.”the cat crouched in the grass in pursuit of a bird” – […]