I am so pleased and grateful to report that FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH will open at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Thank you to all who are helping to spread and share the habits of love and happiness as we age!
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Wm Henry Bloomberg Professor & , creator of "How to Build a Life” , ex-pres , ex-hornist
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The more you wish you were happy, the unhappier you get. But the more you work to be happier, you have a fighting chance.
#unhappy #happiness #healthylife
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Overwork has been linked to depression, anxiety, ADHD, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. And in many cases, workaholism may be the symptom, not the disease, writes:
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Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life.
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Happy to report that FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH is on the New York Times monthly Business Best Sellers list. A nice way to celebrate it’s one-year anniversary.
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The hidden reasons for workaholic behavior, in my column this morning
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Foggy morning in Charleston, SC
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Do you leave meeting-free workdays to increase your productivity and reduce stress?
#Workday #workmeetings #stress #happiness
- Always34.6%
- Sometimes47.9%
- Never17.5%
217 votesFinal results
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Compassion is the source of true joy, peace and happiness. It is the foundation of a good heart, the essence of a meaningful life, and the fundamental principle for creating a better world.
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Those who fight against time are trying to bend the old curve instead of getting onto the new one. But it is almost impossible to bend, which is why people are so frustrated, and usually unsuccessful.
#happiness #aging #secondcurve
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If you want to be happy, you have to state your honest aspiration to be happy, to be willing to be a little less special in worldly terms, and thus to stop objectifying yourself. You must state your desire to lighten your load with pride’s opposing virtue: humility.
#happiness
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A truly meaningful life is one filled with all types of experiences and emotions, including those we find disagreeable. This is why some psychotherapy seeks to not only lower emotional pain, but also find deep purpose in it.
#mixedemotions #happiness
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Robert Waldinger, MD just wrote an excellent new book called The Good Life: Lessons From The World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.
Join us tomorrow for a zoom discussion as well as a book giveaway sponsored by FAN!
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Friends, has made From Strength to Strength the Kindle Deal of the Day! Grab a copy today for only $1.99📚
#kindlebook #nonfiction #BookRecommendations
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“You might think that purely negative emotions are the most unpleasant ones; in truth, a cocktail of negative and positive can be worse,” writes in this week’s “How to Build a Life”:
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Last morning in California
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You might think that purely negative emotions are the most unpleasant ones. In truth, a cocktail of negative and positive can be worse. Read and share my column today :
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“You might think that purely negative emotions are the most unpleasant ones; in truth, a cocktail of negative and positive can be worse,” writes in this week’s “How to Build a Life”:
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Thank you for the highlight. The happiness revolution is growing!
#happiness #nonfiction #bestsellingbooks #arthurbrooks
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Many of the relationships that were severed in the early, isolated days of the pandemic were never reestablished. That’s because we’ve gotten too used to being alone, writes:
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San Clemente, 3:30pm
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In life you can have power or Nutella. Not both.
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Beauty is in the details
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That's a wrap on the 2023 Utah Economic Outlook & Public Policy Summit! Special thanks to , , and Impact Scholar for a terrific event! Access the ERG and Utah Informed at gardner.utah.edu. #utpol #utecon #utahbusiness #UtahEO
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A nice essay here, outlining my recent trip to Salt Lake City to share ideas on happiness
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Thank you Karthik!
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Thanks @arthurbrooks for your book From Strength to Strength......
Finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of our lives.....
#books #BookTwitter #wednesdaythought
karthikchidambaram.com/from-strength-
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Just got this from my cousin David. He’s giving me my first piano lesson
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If your life has not yet gone back to its 2019-era “normal,” you are not alone. In a poll conducted in March 2022 by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 59 percent of respondents said they had not fully returned to their pre-pandemic activities.
#happiness #COVID19 #loneliness
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Beautiful Provo, UT 11:30am
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"What I’m trying to do is create not a supply curve for ideas, but a better demand curve for better ideas by creating more of a hunger for happiness." Read 's profile on ⤵️ bit.ly/3IHjZjY
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The amazing retablo at San Juan Capistrano Basilica
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Many of the relationships that were severed in the early, isolated days of the pandemic were never reestablished. That’s because we’ve gotten too used to being alone, writes in this week’s “How to Build a Life”:
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Completely agree
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Advice I got early in my career: Don’t over engage in any controversy unless you are willing to stake your entire reputation on it. Rather, keep focused on discovering new things & creating, or else you become known for the controversy & nothing else; there is no going back.
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My son the Marine, making sure the back-up camera is working, while holding his girlfriend’s purse.
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San Clemente, 5pm
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Many of the relationships that were severed in the early, isolated days of the pandemic were never reestablished. That’s because we’ve gotten too used to being alone, writes in this week’s “How to Build a Life”:
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COVID created an epidemic of loneliness, from which we have not recovered. See this week's “How to Build a Life” column :
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Working on the new book
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Happy new year
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