Do you make eye contact with strangers when you’re out in the world? Recently I’ve become more aware of my own tendencies to relate with others in what might be called random acts of social connection. I’ve made some changes that have made a significant impact on me. I’d like to encourage you to try […]
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Cultivating Happiness
My father used to tell me, “You’re lucky; you’re one of the happy ones.” I never thought a lot about this, but, obviously, I never forgot it. Could happiness actually be genetic? In her splendid book The How of Happiness, psychology professor Sonya Lyubomirsky shows that about half of it is. Interestingly, very little happiness […]