July 2025 - Half Full - The Network of Care

The Six Points of Connection We All Need

It’s widely recognized that the crises of loneliness, disconnection, and social fragmentation are touching nearly every aspect of our lives, from personal well-being to public health to democracy itself. What’s far less clear is what to do about it. Research...

Published Tue, Jul 15 2025 5:48 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Does It Actually Mean to Forgive?

We all use the word forgiveness. Yet, what if I told you that a research study found that a majority of people who were asked what forgiveness is actually misunderstood it? When Plato began his dialogues based on Socrates’s wisdom, he often started with...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2025 4:21 AM by Greater Good Articles

10 Scientific Tips to Make You Better at Conversation

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves, Alison...

Published Wed, Jul 16 2025 7:45 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Hope Helps Us Build a Meaningful Life

Imagine that you’ve just submitted an application for something important to you: Perhaps it was a dream job, the perfect apartment, or an academic program you’re passionate about. As you’re waiting to hear back, do you think over what a best-case outcome...

Published Tue, Jul 22 2025 5:12 AM by Greater Good Articles

Same Sex or Not, Marriage Makes for Happier, Healthier Couples

Marriage and the ability to start a family are human rights. Ten years ago, on June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Obergefell v. Hodges case extended the right to marry to same-sex couples. With 7.6% of Americans identifying as LGBTQ...

Published Thu, Jul 24 2025 5:12 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can You Get Emotionally Dependent on ChatGPT?

Mariam Z., a 29-year-old product manager with a tech company, started using the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT as soon as it came out in November 2022. The Open AI tool quickly became the fastest-growing consumer software application in history...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2025 7:34 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Does Retirement Affect Our Health and Happiness?

While becoming unemployed can be a huge mental health challenge, many of us assume that retirement—which also involves stopping or at least reducing work—will be the opposite. It’s pictured as a well-deserved time of leisure and relaxation, when we’ll...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2025 7:44 AM by Greater Good Articles

Four Virtues That Our Leaders Need

It started, as many things in Oxford do, with a conversation after lunch. It was the spring of 2013, and a group of professors gathered in a college common room. Their discussion turned to a troubling theme—a widely reported crisis of leadership across...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2025 6:04 AM by Greater Good Articles

Five Habits to Help Kids Be Resilient

What resources do you find helpful when you’re struggling? In the wake of the pandemic, a series of federal grants brought me into Milwaukee Public Schools to support children’s well-being and resilience. In one fourth-grade bilingual classroom, students...

Published Mon, Jul 14 2025 5:32 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can We Have Better Classroom Conversations in Challenging Times?

When Shira Hofer arrived at Harvard in 2021, she was full of hope, not just about academics or independence, but about connection. As a graduate of a pluralistic Jewish day school, she had grown up in an environment that valued both shared identity and...

Published Tue, Jul 08 2025 5:15 AM by Greater Good Articles

Six Ways to Respond to Your Child’s Tantrum

My daughter Carys was two when she discovered the devastating injustice of gravity. She’d been carefully stacking wooden blocks into a tower. It was higher than any structure she’d built before, but the whole thing suddenly tumbled down. Within seconds...

Published Mon, Jul 21 2025 7:43 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Build a Compassionate Workplace

If employees are feeling overworked and stressed and anxious, what is the solution? Many discussions about burnout inevitably turn to ideas like mindfulness and self-compassion: skills that can be taught to workers to improve their mental health and—particularly...

Published Tue, Jul 29 2025 5:34 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Achieve Peace in the War of Disinformation

In 2020, I witnessed an online influence campaign so devious that I could not stop thinking about it—in fact, it inspired me to begin researching my book, Stories Are Weapons, from which this essay is adapted. The reason I found it so compelling was...

Published Tue, Jul 01 2025 7:45 AM by Greater Good Articles

Your Happiness Calendar for Educators for August 2025

Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, connect to your sense of purpose with daily tips from the Greater Good Science Center. Registration is now open...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2025 11:32 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Relationships Help Us Grow and Learn

When you think about your favorite teacher, you probably don’t remember what grades they gave you—you remember how they made you feel. Maybe they got you excited about a book or a science experiment, showed you care during a hard time, or gave you a piece...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2025 6:12 AM by Greater Good Articles

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