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The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors
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“If I wanted to predict your happiness, and I could know only one thing about you, I wouldn’t want to know your gender, religion, health, or income. I’d want to know about your social network—about your friends and family, and the strength of your bonds with them.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
We tend to imitate the habits of three social groups: the close (family and friends), the many (the tribe), and the powerful (those with status and prestige).
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
repeated, attribute by attribute
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Rather, apart from such basic conditions as how well people feel, how much freedom they enjoy, and whether they possess the necessities and comforts of life, the most important sources of happiness seem to include having close relationships with family and friends, helping others, and being active in community, charitable, and political activities.
Derek Bok • The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
Luke Burgis • The Twitter Ban: Handshakes and Emails
Evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky spoke to this in his book Mankind Evolving, when he wrote “the fittest may also be the gentlest, because survival often requires mutual help and cooperation.”1
Deborah A. Dana • Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory
Dans toutes les cultures humaines, le monde social a deux dimensions claires: une dimension horizontale de proximité ou d’affection, et une dimension verticale de hiérarchie ou de statut.