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Three Tips from a Therapist for Calming Your Coronavirus Anxiety

In the early days of COVID-19, we faced many difficult decisions in everyday life: trying to weigh risk and decide whether to meet up or stay home, send kids to school or visit the gym. Now that my home state of California has its “shelter in place” order...

Published Mon, Apr 06 2020 4:10 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Avoid Slipping Back into Bad Habits

You might already be aware that about 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions end in failure. Maybe you’ve taken steps to avoid that fate, like finding an accountability buddy, penciling your goal into your schedule, or downloading a habit-tracking app....

Published Fri, Jan 03 2020 5:32 AM by Greater Good Articles

10 New Movies to Make You Feel Better About Being Stuck at Home

We’re watching a lot of TV these days. Thanks to a perfect storm of disease, natural disaster, and political turmoil, most North Americans are cut off from simple pleasures like a Saturday night dinner and movie at a theater. In many places, it’s not...

Published Wed, Oct 07 2020 4:32 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Older People Can Cope With Isolation

The elderly are especially vulnerable to COVID-19. This necessitates stricter isolation, which can increase their sense of loneliness, isolation, and dependence on others, while making it harder for them to exercise or participate in their communities...

Published Tue, Feb 23 2021 6:50 AM by Greater Good Articles

Five Skills We Need for the Year Ahead

I was feeling the weight of 2020 last week when I went to visit Ms. K, a patient who had a particularly rough year. “This is the year I lost my leg in the spring, and now I am losing this battle with lung cancer all on top of the COVID-19 stress,” she...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2021 7:09 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Educators Can Help Make a Kinder World

“Education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society,” wrote Martin Luther King Jr. in 1947. “The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.” In recent decades, research has lent support to...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2021 8:53 AM by Greater Good Articles

Four Ways Teachers Can Help Students Develop a Conscience

Conscience. It’s that little voice in our head that tells us the right thing to do, tapping into the side of ourselves that is innately good and kind, helping to silence the side that isn’t. When we listen to it, we feel peaceful, knowing we’re doing...

Published Mon, Apr 05 2021 6:55 AM by Greater Good Articles

How TV Shows Can Reduce Prejudice

Last year, the Hulu series “Ramy” made history when it became the first Muslim-American sitcom to ever win an Emmy nomination—two, actually, as both co-creator Ramy Youssef and supporting actor Mahershala Ali were nominated for their performances. Yousseff...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2021 4:48 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Make New Year’s Resolutions That Feel Good

You want to lose weight. Learn to meditate. Get out of debt. Eat more leafy greens. Call your mom more often. But you’re afraid to really try, because of all the times you’ve tried before and failed. I meet plenty of people who refuse to make New Year...

Published Thu, Jan 02 2020 5:13 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can Urban and Rural Americans Get on the Same Page About COVID-19?

The entire United States is grappling with the novel coronavirus pandemic. However, not all areas have been equally affected so far—and there are huge differences between how urban and rural areas have been responding to the threat. According to Gallup...

Published Wed, Apr 08 2020 3:38 AM by Greater Good Articles

What If Work Software Were Designed to Make You Happy?

It’s 9 a.m. on a Monday morning, and I log into my project management software to review my work for the week. I immediately see what I was working on last and where my team members have made progress—all of their contributions marked with their names...

Published Mon, Jul 01 2019 3:25 AM by Greater Good Articles

Please Support the Greater Good Science Center!

As 2011 comes to a close, I am once again profoundly grateful that I am able to write this newsletter and blog for the Greater Good Science Center. This work—so fulfilling for me, and I hope meaningful for you—is made possible by individual supporters...

Published Mon, Dec 26 2011 3:59 AM by Raising Happiness

Gratitude Journal: Freedom of Expression

Got Gratitude? Share it here! Welcome to our community gratitude journal, open to all who’d like to express their thanks or share a happy thought. I’m grateful that my son, age 9, likes being outdoors, and knows how to express himself. [This pic] is a...

Published Fri, Mar 09 2012 12:01 AM by Raising Happiness

Podcast: Does Your Child Have “Problems”?

Teachers often come to parents when their children have problems, but sometimes their framing can lead kids to believe that they can’t do something, or that they are failing. Are problems better framed as opportunities and challenges? Please check out...

Published Thu, May 31 2012 1:00 AM by Raising Happiness

Your Happiness Calendar for April 2019

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. It can help inject a bit of happiness into your everyday life with videos, articles, practices, podcasts, and other content from the Greater Good Science Center and beyond. This April...

Published Mon, Apr 01 2019 9:21 AM by Greater Good Articles

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