All posts tagged "Happiness"

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  How Challenging Stereotypes Can Save Black Lives

  When researchers at Stanford University analyzed 95 million traffic stop records from 2011 to 2018, they found that African Americans are pulled over more frequently than whites by day—but are much less..

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  How Can I Stay Positive for My Kids When I’m

  After another harrowing week of violence, I sat down at my computer to attempt to “work.” Or to just do something, anything. But I continued to scroll, watch, or listen..

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  Resources to Support Anti-Racist Learning

  © Allison Acosta / CC BY-NC 2.0 This is enough. The deep, gaping wounds in our country stemming from centuries of racist ideology and practices have resulted in the senseless murders..

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  Your Greater Good Calendar for June 2020

  Our monthly Greater Good Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you find connection and hope. To open the clickable calendar, click on the image..

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  What Will It Take to Bridge Our Differences?

  We were supposed to meet face to face to talk about how Americans could bridge their differences. But we couldn’t. COVID-19 prevented us from physically coming together. And so the staff..

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  How to Teach Online So All Students Feel Like They

  COVID-19 ejected students from the familiar hustle and bustle of the classroom into unexpected and prolonged isolation at home. This has destabilized their lives and challenged their sense of self...

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  Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good

  Our mission at the Greater Good Science Center is to elevate the human potential for compassion. But that does not mean we deny or dismiss the human potential for violence,..

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  How to Find Strength in Being Different

  The experience of feeling different or unusual is familiar to many, and I know it well. Growing up as the daughter of a Jewish father and Christian mother who both..

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  What If You Pursued Contentment Rather Than Happiness?

  It was 2014, and my research team—including the GGSC’s Dacher Keltner—was studying a remote group of former nomads high in the Himalayas of Eastern Bhutan. This was a place that..

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  Five Lessons to Remember When Lockdown Ends

  A lot of people I know have been starting to wonder about life after the shelter-in-place orders have been lifted. What will it be like? What will the new normal..