Not long after Jim Mallozzi took charge of Prudential Real Estate and Relocation, the company hosted a convention for their many thousands of sales professionals around the world. The theme of my first keynote address,” says Jim, “was ‘change and innovation’ while tapping into the ‘positive power of the possible.’” At one point during his... Read more
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What Will Work Look Like After COVID-19?
A year ago, just after Bay Area governments imposed a shelter-in-place order to check the spread of a mysterious new coronavirus, Cristina Banks worried about how she would work from home. She would miss her office at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. She would miss interacting with colleagues and students. She would miss her... Read more
Five Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience
A mentor of mine recently passed away, and I was heartbroken—so I tried my best to avoid thinking about it. I didn’t even mention it to my family because I didn’t want those sad feelings to resurface. In other words, I took the very enlightened approach of pretend it didn’t happen—one that’s about as effective as... Read more
The Psychology of Purpose
Reviewing six decades of research into the meaning, development, and benefits of purpose in life Modern scientific research on human purpose has its origins in, of all places, a Holocaust survivor’s experiences in a series of Nazi concentration camps. While a prisoner at Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and two satellite camps of Dachau, Viennese psychologist Viktor Frankl noticed that... Read more
Allow things to unfold and you will find your purpose in life | Peggy Oki | TEDxQueenstown
With an appreciation of flow and motion Peggy's life has been always been driven by passion. From surfing and skateboarding to the intimate appreciation what she calls the 'Cetacean Nation'. Discovering the transformative force of participation artwork through her Origami Whales project was the first step to realising that passion could be harnessed, amplified and... Read more
8 Simple Self Improvement Principles
When it comes to self improvement, what principles have you found to be the most influential to your growth?
The new era of positive psychology | Martin Seligman
Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?
How Does a ‘Spiritual Materialist’ Find Meaning? Ask Alan Lightman – Poet, Physicist, Philosopher.
Dr. Alan Lightman, a professor of physics and humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks with the John Templeton Foundation about how he finds meaning, mystery, and a sense of comfort in a universe whose natural laws seem to communicate a clear message: despite our yearning for permanence, nothing--not even the universe itself--lasts forever.... Read more
How We Can Make the World a Better Place by 2030
Can we end hunger and poverty, halt climate change and achieve gender equality in the next 15 years? The governments of the world think we can. Meeting at the UN in September 2015, they agreed to a new set of Global Goals for the development of the world to 2030. Social progress expert Michael Green... Read more