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Seven Ways to Improve Your Relationships With Coworkers

Even though many of us like working in our pajamas, with access to a kitchen full of our favorite foods and our loving pets within reach, there’s been a cost to COVID-related social distancing and the rise of remote work: a loss of social connection with...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2022 4:21 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Do We Bring More Diversity to STEM?

Women and people of color are not well-represented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs. Despite the fact that more women graduate college than men, they occupy only 35% of the jobs in the science and engineering workforce. Further...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2022 7:47 AM by Greater Good Articles

Why Is It So Hard to Ask for Help?

Asking for help is hard, but others want to help more than we often give them credit for, says Stanford social psychologist Xuan Zhao. We shy away from asking for help because we don’t want to bother other people, assuming that our request will feel like...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2022 5:43 AM by Greater Good Articles

Should You Reward Teens for Being Kind?

Some days, you’ll find me reaching for Kleenex when I see a video of a teen being big-hearted and doing the right thing even when nobody’s watching. I’m unapologetic about my eyes welling up—it brings me hope to see a kid’s kindness and capacity to care...

Published Wed, Sep 21 2022 5:24 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Bring More Self-Awareness to Your Sex Life

Welcome to the first column in an occasional series about sexual communication! Today, we’re starting at the beginning, with a topic that you don’t really hear that much about: sexual communication with yourself. What the heck does that mean, exactly...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2022 6:22 AM by Greater Good Articles

When You Feel Jealous, Think About Cultivating “Compersion”

When someone you care about experiences a positive event—like a work promotion, a graduation, a new romance—it is considered not only normal, but emotionally healthy, to rejoice in their success. There is ONE glaring exception to this convention: If our...

Published Mon, Sep 19 2022 11:14 AM by Greater Good Articles

Five Ways to Use SEL to Promote Intellectual Humility

One of the skills students need to acquire with increasing sophistication is the evaluation of information they read, obtain online, or are given. This skill is referred to in various ways, including healthy skepticism and alertness to propaganda. Now...

Published Fri, Sep 16 2022 4:08 AM by Greater Good Articles

Does Mindfulness Get in the Way of Making Amends?

Along its secularizing journey from Buddhist Sutras to scientific laboratories to mobile apps, meditation has been adapted, dissected, and distilled in many ways—in some ways for better (practices are accessible to many, many more people) and in some...

Published Wed, Sep 14 2022 5:52 AM by Greater Good Articles

Three Ways to Feel More Hopeful as an Educator

Why did you click on this article? You may feel world-weary, exhausted. You may be asking yourself whether teaching is the job for you. Larger educational policies and practices may leave you feeling helpless and deflated. Yet you want to feel hope. Despite...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2022 6:15 AM by Greater Good Articles

Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness

Years ago, when I had my first media interview about my research on humility, the interviewer was curious whether studying humility actually made me any humbler. She asked me to poll my wife, to see how humble she perceived me to be. When I solicited...

Published Mon, Sep 12 2022 3:11 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Happy Will You Be in Old Age? It Depends Where You Live

On average, happiness declines as we approach middle age, bottoming out in our 40s but then picking back up as we head into retirement, according to a number of studies. This so-called U-shaped curve of happiness is reassuring but, unfortunately, probably...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2022 6:53 AM by Greater Good Articles

How We Misunderstand Anxiety and Miss Out on Its Benefits

When you or a loved one feels anxious, how do you respond? According to professor Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, this is the key moment when many of us make a mistake. Uncomfortable with the pangs of tension—or with seeing our kids uneasy—we hurry up and do whatever...

Published Wed, Sep 07 2022 4:49 AM by Greater Good Articles

Five Ways to Support the Well-Being of School Leaders

These past years, fraught with pandemic and polarized political tensions, have been tough on the people who run schools. Principals everywhere have stepped up to the occasion—putting out fires, coping with unexpected situations, and engaging, informing...

Published Tue, Sep 06 2022 6:10 AM by Greater Good Articles

Six Insights About Well-Being at Work in 2022

What did the pandemic teach us about work? For many, it illuminated how essential certain jobs are in keeping our society running, and it shined a light on the pernicious burnout that existed among health care workers even before the first COVID case...

Published Fri, Sep 02 2022 5:36 AM by Greater Good Articles

Ten TV Series That Highlight the Best in Humanity

Every year, we invite staff and regular contributors to nominate TV series for Greater Goodies, the awards we give to movies and show that might help us to be our best selves. Here’s what we came up this year!The Fighting-Burnout-with-Connection Award...

Published Wed, Aug 31 2022 4:16 AM by Greater Good Articles

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