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According to Fredrickson, when we experience positive emotions, we’re more likely to have novel thoughts, take on new challenges, and embrace new experiences. On the other hand, negative emotions tend to make us narrow our possibilities. Negative emotions constrain our thoughts and behavior.
Steve Magness • Do Hard Things
Opening to Love Loving-kindness and compassion meditation are transformational when practiced over several years. They become established mind states such that you spontaneously respond to all situations with one or the other or both. When you reach this stage of development, you realize not only that you are capable of experiencing such beautiful
... See morePhillip Moffitt • Emotional Chaos to Clarity
as exemplified in the pathbreaking work by Tania Singer on compassion and Richard Davidson on neuroplasticity.
C Otto Scharmer, Peter Senge (Foreword) • Theory U
My friend and former colleague Norman Cousins was a tireless advocate for the value of positive emotions in promoting health, and he warned of the danger that negative emotions may jeopardize it. Although some critics attacked Cousins’s views as simplistic, subsequent research in psychoneuroimmunology has supported the ways in which positive
... See moreViktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Dr. Carol Dweck, professor at Stanford University, we have a mind-set problem. Dweck has done an enormous amount of research to understand what makes someone give up in the face of adversity versus strive to overcome it.
Peter Bregman • 18 Minutes
the people who live the longest have two dispositional traits in common: a positive attitude and a high degree of emotional awareness.
Francesc Miralles • Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
According to the broaden-and-build theory, positive emotions ‘broaden’ our awareness and ‘build’ our cognitive and social resources. Broaden refers to the immediate effect of positive emotions: when we’re feeling good, our minds open up, we take in more information, and we see more possibilities around us. Consider the candle problem: in a positive
... See moreAli Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Harnessing Mental Energy: The Power of Perspective and Positivity
Klaus Kleinfeld • Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life
After a bad or disrupting occurrence in your life, Fredrickson’s research shows, what you choose to focus on exerts significant leverage on your attitude going forward. These simple choices can provide a “reset button” to your emotions.