Month: February 2017

Positive Psychology News Digest | No. 08/2017

mappalicious_news_digest_2017My favorite news and blog articles covering Positive Psychology and adjacent topics from (roughly) the last seven days.

Forbes: Two Reasons We Fail to Be Creative by Caroline Beaton

Mindful.org: Can Mindfulness Help Us Navigate the Fourth Industrial Revolution? by Jamie Bristow

New Yorker: Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds by Elisabeth Kolbert

Greater Good Science Center: What Would Buddha Do About the Economy? by Jenara Nerenberg

The Positive Organization: The Power of an Organizing Image by Robert Quinn

Sciencer of Us: To Navigate a Challenge, Pretend You’re Giving Advice to a Friend by Brad Stulberg

Greater Good Science Center: Can You Change Your Personality? by Jill Suttie

Heleo: Feeling Adrift? Here’s How to Strengthen Meaning in Your Life, no author

Michigan Ross: The Business Case for Compassion, no author

Heleo: Why Bringing Compassion to Work is Good for Business, no author

My new TEDx talk: “Dare to Foster Compassion in Organizations”

I´m super happy. After my official TEDx premiere at TEDx Bergen/Norway in 2014 (How to be the architect of your own fortune), as of today, my second TEDx talk is available on YouTube. It was filmed at the very first edition of TEDx EBS late in 2016. EBS University (or European Business School Oestrich-Winkel) is one of the premier business schools in Germany and, coincidentally, the place where I obtained my Ph.D.

The talk is named “Dare to Foster Compassion in Organizations”. It draws on research by luminaries such as Jane Dutton, Monica Worline, Adam Galinsky, Laura Little, Jennifer Berdahl, and the late Peter Frost (and even though they are neither mentioned nor referenced on a slide explicitly, Esa Saarinen, Adam Grant, and Robert Quinn).

I hope you will enjoy the talk! And if you do, please consider sharing the news. Thank You!

If you are interested in a (sort of…) transcript of the talk: this was published here a while ago.

Positive Psychology News Digest | No. 07/2017

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My favorite news and blog articles covering Positive Psychology and adjacent topics from (roughly) the last seven days.

New York Magazine: Rich People Literally See the World Differently by Drake Baer

American Management Association: Developing GRIT: How To Build Your Optimism And Drive Toward Success by Thomas Boyce

Fast Company: A Psychologist Finally Explains Why You Hate Teamwork So Much by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Harvard Business Review: If You Want to Motivate Employees, Stop Trusting Your Instincts by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic & Lewis Garrad

Harvard Business Review: Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive by Ryan Fuller & Nina Shikaloff

New York Magazine: A Strategy for Making Decisions You Won’t Regret by Cari Romm

New York Magazine: This Study on Altruistic Toddlers Will Make You Feel Better About the World by Cari Romm

Huffington Post: Healing Spaces: Expressing Values vs Being Political at Work by Chris White

Heleo: Embrace Authenticity: How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Positivity, no author

Knowledge@Wharton: You’re Happy and You Know It — Why You Probably Shouldn’t Show It, no author

In German

Capital: Zufriedenheit kann man lernen by Christina Berndt

Positive Psychology News Digest | No. 06/2017

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My favorite news and blog articles covering Positive Psychology and adjacent topics from (roughly) the last seven days.

New York Magazine: Psychologists Think They Found the Purpose of Depression by Drake Baer

New York Magazine: Everybody Discounts How Much Fun Matters for Their Next Job by Drake Baer

Psychology Today: Five Secrets to a Stress-Proof Brain by Melanie Greenberg

Psychology Today: How Does Gratitude Enhance Trust? by Todd Kashdan

Psychology Today: Employee Engagement Is Declining, but Managers Can Help by Victor Lipman

Fast Company: These are the 5 things that are causing employees to burn out & what you can do about them by Gwen Moran

New York Magazine: The Contact Hypothesis Offers Hope for the World by Jesse Singal

New York Magazine: Seeking a Sense of Belonging in a Divisive Era by Emily Esfahani Smith

Time: The key to success is not having more by Scott Sonenshein

New York Magazine: The Curse of Being Too Passionate by Brad Stulberg

Positive Psychology News Digest | No. 05/2017

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My favorite news and blog articles covering Positive Psychology and adjacent topics from (roughly) the last seven days.

Forbes: Are You Using Apple’s Secret Skill At Work? by Jessica Amortegui

Bakadesuyo: This Is How To Have A Happy Life: 4 Proven Secrets From Research by Eric Barker

Fast Company: When you really want something, you’re better off thinking you won’t get it by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

New York Magazine: The 5 Personality Traits That Make for a Better Life by Melissa Dahl

New York Magazine: How ‘Intellectual Humility’ Can Make You a Better Person by Cindy Lamothe

Huffington Post: Is Positive Psychology Still Relevant in 2017? (Interview with Prof. Barbara Fredrickson) by Michelle McQuaid

BBC: The ‘untranslatable’ emotions you never knew you had by David Robson

New York Magazine: An Easy Way to Get Your Co-workers to Trust You More by Cari Romm

The Age: The science of being a hero by Annabel Stafford

Inc: 7 Ways to Stop Complaining and Feel Happier (Backed by Science) by Andrew Thomas