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Your Happiness Calendar for February 2022

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

Published Mon, Jan 31 2022 10:16 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Exploring My Father’s Life Helped Me Understand My Own

On a quiet afternoon while sitting in my office at Stanford, I got an unexpected phone call from my daughter that changed my understanding of both my life and my field of study. This was no small deal. I was in my 60s, with enough years behind me—one...

Published Mon, Jan 31 2022 4:57 AM by Greater Good Articles

Tips for Rooting Out Bias in Yourself and Your Organization

Can we overcome bias? We all tend to make unconscious judgments about people based on their social identities and the cultural stereotypes that cling to them. But bias can be disastrous for its targets, affecting their health, success, and happiness....

Published Fri, Jan 28 2022 4:21 AM by Greater Good Articles

How You Can Help Kids Be Good People Online

How can we successfully educate children and adolescents to flourish online? That’s a big question, one that to my knowledge no one has a very good answer to. At least no one has an answer that is comprehensive, based on evidence, and practical—an answer...

Published Thu, Jan 27 2022 3:14 AM by Greater Good Articles

Three Reasons for Leaders to Cultivate Intellectual Humility

As a leader, do you feel like you have to know it all? Or that expressing uncertainty or revising your viewpoints would undermine your effectiveness as a leader? Unfortunately, this way of thinking can backfire. Nurse-leader and author Karlene Kerfoot...

Published Wed, Jan 26 2022 4:48 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Campus Groups Can Help Latinos Succeed in College

Esau Torres is a father of three who had spent 17 years touring all over the U.S. with his band Los Malandrines. But in 2015, he decided to leave music behind—and to obtain a degree in business. Torres began his journey at a local community college and...

Published Tue, Jan 25 2022 5:41 AM by Greater Good Articles

How I Let Go of a Lifelong Fear

I’m standing on stage in front of 150 people, the spotlight bright in my eyes, the microphone solid in my hand. Their faces stare up at me, expectantly. I’m there to tell them a story. For a lot of people, being on stage in this way is a nightmare. Stage...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2022 5:16 AM by Greater Good Articles

Seven Ways to Make Cities Better for Mental Health

Much of the world lives in urban settings, with North America housing 82% of its population in cities. But while cities can be attractive places to live, providing work and recreational opportunities for people, they can also be lonely and unhealthy....

Published Fri, Jan 21 2022 3:55 AM by Greater Good Articles

I’m a Happiness Journalist, and Omicron Is Crushing Me

“I’m ready for the pandemic to stop now, please.” That’s what I texted my colleague Kira Newman the other day. What happened to trigger it? Nothing new, really. My teenage son does have COVID, at this writing—thanks, Omicron wave—but that isn’t the problem;...

Published Wed, Jan 19 2022 6:49 AM by Greater Good Articles

Four Ways Nature Can Protect Your Well-Being During a Pandemic

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on people’s mental health and well-being. Restricted movement, loss, and isolation have led to increases in depression, anxiety disorders, stress, sleep disorders, and more. The effects have...

Published Tue, Jan 18 2022 4:30 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can We Be Hopeful and Courageous in the Face of Climate Change?

I’ve grown up hearing about climate change. It started with adults telling me the importance of protecting our environment–and by the time I was at Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School in Berkeley, California, I was getting full lessons on the direness...

Published Sun, Jan 16 2022 8:26 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Overcome a Stubborn Regret

A friend of mine—we will call him “Jay”—was working for IBM in New York City in the early ’90s. He was a computer programmer and made a good salary. Occasionally, competitors and startups approached Jay to join their companies. He had an offer from an...

Published Fri, Jan 14 2022 3:32 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Turn Bad Anxiety Into Good Anxiety

Anxiety can feel like a heavy weight that we didn’t ask to carry. Who wouldn’t love to get rid of it? But neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki wants to challenge the way we look at our anxiety. In fact, her new book is called Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power...

Published Thu, Jan 13 2022 4:24 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can Self-Compassion Increase Resilience in the Face of Discrimination?

What helps individual African Americans stay resilient in the face of racism? Veronica Womack of Northwestern University and her colleagues put one technique to the test: self-compassion, which is the ability to speak warmly and kindly to yourself even...

Published Tue, Jan 11 2022 5:25 AM by Greater Good Articles

Our Favorite Books for Educators in 2021

Over the past year, the challenges that teachers, students, and our communities have faced reinforce the value of social and emotional learning, mindfulness, character development, self-compassion, and social justice—and our favorite education books of...

Published Mon, Jan 10 2022 4:18 AM by Greater Good Articles

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