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Truisms iii) Dry stonewalling
Here are seven of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms I increasingly agree with: Fake or real indifference is a powerful personal weapon Expressing anger is necessary Emotional responses are as valuable as...
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Laughter
As I wrote the other week, I now know the cognitive cost of self-control is ‘ego depletion’. In Wired’s less technical terms, acts of self-control ‘piss the ego off’ and attract us to angry thoughts,...
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Adults and Children
All adults are big kids sometimes, but often the wrong kind. We keep the petty, squabbling, thin-skinnedness of children but often lose the curiosity, spontaneity and sense of fun. It’s a bit hackneyed...
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Laughter; the best medicine
I’m more a man for observational humour than for jokes; but perhaps the joke has been on me… British humour tends to the downbeat. Ironic, sarcastic and even cynical – there’s always the risk of us...
View ArticleGoals + Agency + Pathways = Hope
A timely blog from the always readable Eric Barker brings us the science of hope. Before his passing, Charles Snyder was a professor at the University of Kansas and editor of the Journal of Social and...
View ArticleNo laughing matter…
One of the things I noticed on completing my latest Coursera psychology course is that I’m not laughing much these days… Having checked out the late Chris Peterson’s Strength Based Perspective on...
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