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This is our neuropsychological home base: to be calm, contented, and caring.
Rick Hanson • Neurodharma
Reading Maslow is like putting on a new pair of glasses that allow you to see people more clearly. He says, “Although human beings are capable of being selfish, lustful, and aggressive, that is not what they are fundamentally. Beneath the surface, at the psychological and biological core of human nature, we find basic goodness and decency. When peo
... See moreGene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
In 1998, Dr. Martin Seligman, incoming president of the American Psychological Association (APA), had challenged the field of psychology to broaden its focus to study and implement interventions that went beyond human problems and pathology to include the study of human strengths and well-being—basically, what’s going right.2 He thus initiated posi
... See moreTim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
as a strength,
kindness has three components: (a) the motivation to be kind to others; (b) the recognition of
kindness in others; and (c) the enactment of kind behavior in one's daily life.
Otake et al., 2006 • counting kindness study
Advancing the value of compassion