Why Joy Is Worth the Risk

And it's all up to you, and what you paint is just as limited only as your imagination. But after a certain point, that canvas gets pretty full. To be happy, you need to change the metaphor from a canvas you're filling up to a…

Why Joy Is Worth the Risk

…they age, they tend to be the ones who experienced a lot more success earlier in their lives. And it kind of makes sense. What goes up must come down. Look, if you don't do anything with your life, you won't know when it's over.…

Why Joy Is Worth the Risk

One group gets happier and happier as they age, and the other group gets less and less happy. It's about 50-50 if you look at the data. Now most people think that to be on the upper branch, to get happier as you get older,…

Why Joy Is Worth the Risk

The second big idea is a little bit less, um, let's say encouraging in the first. It's called the striver's curse. The striver's curse is the fact that there are 2 groups of people, after about age 70 in the population. One group gets happier…

Why Joy Is Worth the Risk

…are recognized as joy, more sounds, more changes to the voice, more gestures, more body language, more ways of touching people. You can communicate joy through a hug or how you physically hold someone's hand or shake them with your good news. Joy even has…

Why Joy Is Worth the Risk

Another reason that I think it's important to recognize the core mental process of joy as appreciation is because it also helps us recognize the biggest barriers to joy. And they include things like cynicism, which is a reluctance to really acknowledge or trust good…

Why Joy Is Worth the Risk

Take anger as an example. The more you ruminate. The more likely you are to feel angry, to become angry, to express anger. Rumination is that mental process of going back to something negative, stewing on it, replaying it in your mind. I ask you…

Patanjali’s Diagnostic

Most people encounter the Yoga Sutras as a list. Four books. 196 aphorisms. The eight limbs, in order, sometimes memorized, sometimes printed on laminated studio cards. Sutra 1.2 gets cited constantly — yogas chitta vritti nirodhah, yoga is the cessation of mental fluctuations — usually…

Episode 28: The Monk beyond Perfection: Swami Sarvapriyananda ji

Peter Drucker, famous management guru, and his management challenges for the 21st century. He said for the 1st time in 20th century and 21st century, of course, we have choice. For millennia, our forefathers. They lived where they were born. They did the occupations of…

Episode 28: The Monk beyond Perfection: Swami Sarvapriyananda ji

…That's the very nature of Samsara. To not only live with that, to be comfortable with that, to be able to operate with that. And not to be a doormat, you can always be very firm in your point of view, in the essentials of…

Episode 28: The Monk beyond Perfection: Swami Sarvapriyananda ji

…same Lord, I'm serving in the office when I'm writing a report in a computer. Connecting our day-to-day activities to God. And finally, the 4th component would, of course, be meditation. At least once or twice in a day, preferably early in the morning and…

Episode 28: The Monk beyond Perfection: Swami Sarvapriyananda ji

And he doesn't say this, but he just says all life is yoga. That's his that's the quote. But what it means is, if you're deliberately spiritual. If follows some path of spirituality, then you are a spiritual. You call yourself a spiritual seeker. If…

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You know, I don’t even know what to say about Google and YouTube except that YouTube, in many ways, is unbelievably…

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The seniors that I know that are addicted to Facebook are addicted to it because they allow for criminal-level behavior…

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I got what I wanted. Why am I unhappy?

…Thank you for having me. All right, it's time for a recap. Take away one. Give yourself time to adjust to big shifts or sit with your accomplishments before you make any more big life changes, because there's still a transition period, even when you…

I got what I wanted. Why am I unhappy?

Sometimes I ask myself, is my life generally better than it was 5 years ago, you know, and it, it has been, even with like new problems and things like that that have cropped up. I feel like my new situations, the changes in my…

I got what I wanted. Why am I unhappy?

I do think that some big life changes and some accomplishments can make a huge difference in our well-being, but they also open up a whole new set of challenges. Yeah, you know, I think of this as an emotional paradox, really, because there's the…

I got what I wanted. Why am I unhappy?

Sometimes achieving a goal is elating and feels like an accomplishment. Other times, it invites anxiety, deflation or even grief. Psychiatrist Pooja Lakshmin, author of the upcoming book Quantum Shifts: A Practical Framework for Navigating Life's Biggest Changes, urges people to pay close attention to…

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To Be a Gay Man

…models for me growing up, therefore, were basically repressed gay men, who danced the tune of the heteronormative bureaucracy for the entertainment of the audience at home. That wasn't a life I wanted. These days, TV regulars like Graham Norton occupy a fantastic position, seen…

After the worst has happened, when you look back and see, no, in fact, it was not because there was something wrong…

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One hundred percent. While I may have suffered unbelievably for having been queer as a little boy, I mean, truly, it…

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The Fashion World Has Moved Beyond Yeezy’s Aspirations

In the past year, Ye has waged a comeback. He took out an ad in The Wall Street Journal apologizing for his antisemitic remarks, and in March he released "Bully," his first album since the self-inflicted firestorm. Ye has since played sold-out concerts in Chicago,…

The Fashion World Has Moved Beyond Yeezy’s Aspirations

All his antecedent controversies aside, this show convinced me that Ye is no longer a vital voice in fashion. There was a time when Ye had the Midas touch. (Or, perhaps, the muddy gray touch.) The New York Times (full text)Source: The New York Times…

Did Triceratops Fight? Fossils Reveal the Shocking Evidence #Shorts #Triceratops #Dinosaur

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Did Triceratops Fight? Fossils Reveal the Shocking Evidence #Shorts #Triceratops #Dinosaur

For decades, paleontologists debated whether those iconic three horns and massive bony frills were purely for display, defense against predators like T. rex, or combat within their own species. Animalogic · sourceSource: Animalogic — youtube.com

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Sex Work Made Me See Men Differently

Paloma Karr, a sex worker and writer, tells Anna Martin, the host of the "Modern Love" podcast, how working in a legal brothel in Nevada changed her understanding of men The New York Times · sourceSource: The New York Times — youtube.com · Sex Work…

DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger

HBO has done right by the DCU: I loved both seasons of Peacemaker; Lanterns is a shining beacon of what is possible when someone is allowed to get really creative within the genre; and I'm very much looking forward to next year's Jimmy Olsen (Skylar…

1. The Dangers of Safety

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Pride

Liz is already a doctor of physical therapy. Becky isn't far behind — neither is Victoria. All three pursued their doctorates while keeping a serious practice. They've each thanked me, at different points, for fostering their curiosity. For never letting them forget what they were…

Comic books go undercover in a new exhibit at DC’s Spy Museum

In Tuesday's episode of "Matt About Town," we're showing you how a new exhibit at D.C.'s International Spy Museum is looking to change that. It's called "Comic Book Confidential," and curators say they hope this exhibit serves as a great introduction to the world of…