My favorite pieces covering Positive Psychology and adjacent from (roughly) the last seven days.
PsyBlog: The Advantage of Being Overconfident And Self-Deluded by Jeremy Dean
Live For Live Music: Why Some People Get ‘Skin-Gasms’ While Listening To Music by Kendall Deflin
Seth Godin´s Blog: The possibility of optimism (the optimism of possibility)
Huffington Post: 8 great things that happen when you practice self-compassion by Lindsay Holmes
NPR: Could Thinking Positively About Aging Be The Secret Of Health? by Ina Jaffe
Elle: 10 Countries That Actually Want Their Citizens to Have Better Lives by Michael Sebastian
Harvard Business Review: Happy Workplaces can also be Candid Workplaces by Emma Seppälä and Kim Cameron
Positive Organization: The Emergence of Organization Whisperers by Robert Quinn
Positive Organization: Positive Emotions and Positive Culture by Robert Quinn
Harvard Business Review: Stop Comparing Management to Sports by Freek Vermeulen
Science Daily: Professor’s new study emphasizes the impact of leaders’ language: Top-tier research shows clearly stated company values can have a profound effect on overall success, no author
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