My favorite news and blog articles covering Positive Psychology and adjacent Topics from (roughly) the last seven days.
Quartz: The world’s largest assessment of teenage students suggests happiness is crucial to learning by Jenny Anderson
Greater Good Science Center: Confessions of a Bad Meditator by Christine Carter
Quartz: Silicon Valley executives are hiring philosophers to teach them to question everything by Michael Coren
Psychology Today: Are You the Pursuer or the Distancer in Your Relationship? by Lisa Firestone
Washington Post: Introverts tend to be better CEOs — and other surprising traits of top-performing executives by Jena McGregor
Huffington Post: You Don’t Need Good Grades To Get An A+ In Resilience by Bowman Nixon
Psychology Today: Why Speaking Less is the Secret to Powerful Communication by Emma Seppälä
Psychology Today: 7 Must-Read Books to Change Your Life This Summer by Emma Seppälä
Quartz: Our need to feel special is making us lonely by Emma Seppälä & Peter Sims
Quartz: What is the evolutionary purpose of happiness? by Oliver Staley
BBC: Prince William says keeping a stiff upper lip can damage health, no author
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