Intro to Positive Psychology
The focus of Positive Psychology is to study what people do right, what factors contribute to happiness, what makes individuals and communities flourish.
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Psychology
Character Strengths and Virtues
Take a test to determine your key strengths and virtues. This tells you a lot about yourself.
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The science behind nostagia
There\’s a reason the brain is attracted to memories of the past,
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Why I am fixated on stories
Our brains our hardwired to remember things in story format. In fact, if you tell a person a story, he will remember it far longer than a list of facts.
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What your life story says about you
Stories may not seem like a basic survival need, but our brains naturally tell stories as a way to give structure and meaning to our lives. And according to research in narrative psychology, an emerging field of study that examines how stories shape our lives and personalities, the stories we tell ourselves play a large
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Stories in the Brain
Positive psychologist Shawn Achor describes how there are 11 million pieces of information from our nerve endings that bombard our brains, but our brains only comprehend 40 bits of information per second. If we want to capture the attention of someone’s busy brain, we have to do something that causes our message to rise above
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