January 2020 - Half Full - The Network of Care

Why Imitation Is at the Heart of Being Human

Chimpanzees, human beings’ closest animal relatives, share up to 98 percent of our genes. Their human-like hands and facial expressions can send uncanny shivers of self-recognition down the backs of zoo patrons. Yet people and chimpanzees lead very different...

Published Thu, Jan 23 2020 5:59 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Overcome Your Brain’s Fixation on Bad Things

Why can’t we pull our attention away from a traffic accident or stop watching news about the latest viral outbreak? Why are we waylaid by criticism or unable to get past a minor snub from our best friend? That’s our negativity bias. We humans have a propensity...

Published Mon, Jan 13 2020 4:35 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Makes a Workplace Diversity Program Successful?

Facebook publishes an annual diversity report—a way to catalog the efforts the company is making toward diversifying its staff, and to report on its progress. They’re not alone; many other companies, both in the technology world and beyond, are implementing...

Published Tue, Jan 21 2020 4:19 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Memories of Kindness Can Make You Happy

Just this month, a group of middle school students in Alabama made the news for posting positive notes on the lockers of fellow students. For Christmas, a few Attleboro, MA, students chipped in to buy their beloved school janitor new boots as a present...

Published Fri, Jan 31 2020 4:33 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Happens When You Tell Your Story and I Tell Mine?

As a white man who grew up in Texas, John Howard Griffin was curious about the lives of African Americans who lived under America’s Jim Crow system in the late 1950’s. So, he embarked on a bold experiment. He decided to darken his skin, live as a black...

Published Thu, Jan 09 2020 8:54 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Aging Better

About 13 years ago, I watched my very vital mother die a slow death from Lewy-Body dementia. For me, it was a wakeup call. If there were anything I could do to stay healthy myself—to avoid the slow decline of an aging brain—I wanted to do it. But what...

Published Mon, Jan 20 2020 4:40 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can Mindfulness Help When You’re Depressed?

For many people, depression is a lifelong battle. If you have one episode of depression, there is a 30 percent chance of recurrence within 10 years, increasing to an 80 percent chance after two episodes. Only about one quarter of people achieve remission...

Published Fri, Jan 10 2020 3:17 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Go Through Life with Love in Your Heart

How do you react to difficult emotions like anxiety, guilt, or anger? Many of us have the habit of judging ourselves and others harshly, drawing lines of blame that separate us from each other. But there’s another way, writes internationally recognized...

Published Tue, Jan 28 2020 4:27 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Regulate Your Emotions Without Suppressing Them

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a key predictor of mental health. Our EQ refers to our ability to be aware of, regulate, and express our emotions and to understand, and respond skillfully, to the emotions of others. Regulating emotions, especially big...

Published Thu, Jan 30 2020 6:21 AM by Greater Good Articles

Five Surprising Ways Exercise Changes Your Brain

We’ve all heard that exercise is good for us—how it strengthens our hearts and lungs, and helps us prevent diseases like diabetes. That’s why so many of us like to make New Year’s resolutions to move more, knowing it will make us healthier and live longer...

Published Mon, Jan 06 2020 4:37 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Help All Students Feel Safe to Be Themselves

Each year, roughly 30 percent of California students in middle and high school report being bullied or harassed, many because of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual identity, or some other aspect of their social identity. This finding comes...

Published Wed, Jan 15 2020 5:20 AM by Greater Good Articles

What America Can Learn from Couples Therapy

At family gatherings, in bars and restaurants, relatives and friends are shouting at each other instead of engaging in what used to be called political discussions. These high-volume, emotionally charged exchanges are also increasingly the norm in venues...

Published Wed, Jan 29 2020 7:22 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Overcome the Struggles of Midlife

Fifty-six-year-old Steve Reinhardt had always thought himself resilient. But some strokes of bad luck left him with a serious confidence crisis. He’d spent 25 years as a senior marketing executive, but in the Great Recession he put his nest egg in the...

Published Fri, Jan 24 2020 5:24 AM by Greater Good Articles

Dear Christine: How Do I Motivate My Teen?

Dear Christine, I have two teenagers, a boy who is in high school and a girl who is in college. My daughter has always been self-motivated and a great student. I’ve never needed to nag her to do her homework, and she has always gotten good grades and...

Published Mon, Jan 27 2020 5:26 AM by Greater Good Articles

Creating a Happy Society Is More Complicated Than We Think

Imagine two different societies. In the first, people tend to be stressed, tense, irritable, distracted, and self-absorbed. In the second, people tend to be at ease, untroubled, quick to laugh, expansive, and self-assured. The difference between these...

Published Wed, Jan 08 2020 3:31 AM by Greater Good Articles

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