December 2021 - Half Full - The Network of Care

Your Happiness Calendar for January 2022

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you find your motivation and purpose. To open the clickable calendar, click on the image below. (Please note: If you are having trouble clicking on calendar...

Published Fri, Dec 31 2021 4:37 AM by Greater Good Articles

For the New Year, Try Imagining Your Best Possible Life

When I was in my late 20s, I was living in Santa Barbara and wondering about the course of my life. I had a job that was interesting enough, but it came with a terrible boss who actively sabotaged my work. I’d been in a few serious relationships, but...

Published Thu, Dec 30 2021 4:45 AM by Greater Good Articles

The Best Greater Good Articles of 2021

More people have read Greater Good magazine since the start of the pandemic than during any other period of our two-decade history. We’re not entirely sure this is good news. People around the world faced formidable emotional and social challenges as...

Published Tue, Dec 28 2021 8:04 AM by Greater Good Articles

Our Best Education Articles of 2021

Our most popular education articles of 2021 explore how to navigate some of this year’s challenges—including grief, boredom, and isolation—while uplifting our capacity for connection, belonging, and healing. Several articles also highlight how character...

Published Mon, Dec 27 2021 7:39 AM by Greater Good Articles

10 Happiness Practices a Doctor Prescribes to His Patients

In addition to all the fear and chaos it has wreaked, COVID-19 has changed the way we think about our health. Thanks to the psychological, and even physical, impact of protracted quarantines and shutdowns, many of us have come to realize that feeling...

Published Wed, Dec 22 2021 5:28 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Well Do You Bridge Differences?

How good are you at connecting with people who are very different from yourself? The Greater Good Science Center created the bridging differences quiz to help people gauge their tendency to seek out, spend time with, and have meaningful interactions with...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2021 4:58 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Bats Can Teach Us About Our Social Brains

Whether chatting with friends at a dinner party or managing a high-stakes meeting at work, communicating with others in a group requires a complex set of mental tasks. Our brains must track who is speaking and what is being said, as well as what our relationship...

Published Fri, Dec 17 2021 5:46 AM by Greater Good Articles

The Top 10 Insights from the “Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2021

If 2020 started a global conversation about mental health, in 2021 we are still talking. There are discussions of languishing, widespread burnout, and a youth mental health crisis. While researchers are still trying to investigate the exact toll that...

Published Thu, Dec 16 2021 7:43 AM by Greater Good Articles

This Trait Makes You Less Susceptible to COVID-19 Misinformation

False or misleading information about COVID-19 spread seemingly as fast as the disease itself. How bad is the problem? A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that nearly a third of adult Americans believed at least four of eight false statements...

Published Wed, Dec 15 2021 6:06 AM by Greater Good Articles

Try Our One-Month Pathway to Happiness Program

A growing body of evidence shows that people can increase their happiness by engaging in positive activities like expressing gratitude, practicing mindfulness, and being kind and generous toward other people. Engaging in activities like these helps us...

Published Tue, Dec 14 2021 4:18 AM by Greater Good Articles

Our Favorite Parenting Books of 2021

As 2021 comes to a close, parents are still trying to navigate the uncertainties of raising children during a period of disease and strife. Most kids have gone back to in-person school, but that’s brought a host of challenges, from new routines to wearing...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2021 8:37 AM by Greater Good Articles

Our Favorite Books of 2021

Many of the issues that plagued us in 2020 and into 2021 require widespread cooperation. We won’t change the course of the pandemic, racism, climate change, or human suffering if we can’t bridge our differences and learn to work together. Many of our...

Published Fri, Dec 10 2021 3:55 AM by Greater Good Articles

What We Learned From Two Giants of Positive Psychology

Many of us suffered terrible losses in 2021. In the field of positive psychology, we lost two of our most influential scholars: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Ed Diener. In their honor, I’d like to remember and appreciate the contributions they made to the...

Published Wed, Dec 08 2021 8:58 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Latino Families Can Raise Courageous, Caring Kids

The voice of a dad, playing with his small child in Spanish. “Dónde está el bebé?....Acá está” (“Where is the baby? Here he is”). The sound of a baby giggling (the most joyous sound to a parent—in any language). This parenting spot, called “Love” (“El...

Published Tue, Dec 07 2021 7:10 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can Any Good Come of Our COVID Lockdowns?

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc around the world. Lives lost, businesses closed, economies in ruins, a wave of mental health issues. It’s hard to imagine that any good could have come of it—and little has for most of us. Yet many people have consciously...

Published Mon, Dec 06 2021 5:14 AM by Greater Good Articles

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