Quote of the day
We can never really know the state of mind— the attitudes, thoug
hts, and feelings— of other people. We depend on signals, which are frequently ambiguous, to inform us about the attitudes and wishes of other people. We use our own coding system, which may be defective, to decipher these signals. Depending on our own state of mind at a particular time, we may be biased in our method of interpreting other people’s behavior, that is, how we decode. The degree to which we believe that we are correct in divining another person’s motives and attitudes is not related to the actual accuracy of our belief.
~AARON T. BECK, author of Love Is Never Enough: How Couples Can Overcome Misunderstanding
HAPPINESS
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23 Science-Backed Ways to Feel Happier, Mental Floss | Tweet
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands! Even as children, we’re taught to recognize and celebrate feelings of happiness—and it’s no wonder. Not only is happiness one of the most positive emotions we can experience, but being happy is also the key to a fulfilled, healthy life.
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LOVE
- How To Make Love Last: 3 Secrets Backed By Research, Barking Up the Wrong Tree | Tweet
The beginning of a relationship is amazing. But often, it starts to fizzle out later on… The things you used to love about them start to annoy you. They don’t listen. They don’t seem interested in meeting your needs. It doesn’t feel reciprocal anymore. What’s the problem here? We all want to know how to make love last.
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RELATIONSHIPS
In November 1891, the British sexologist Havelock Ellis married the writer and lesbian Edith Lees. He was 32 and a virgin. And since he was impotent, they never consummated their union. After their honeymoon, the two lived separately in what he called an open marriage. The union lasted until Lees’ death in 1916.
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MINDFULNESS
Meditation has long been used to induce calm and physical relaxation. But research on its potential uses for treating medical problems “is still in its very early stages,” and designing trials can be challenging, said Richard J. Davidson, a neuroscientist who founded the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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PHILOSOPHY
- Why We Fail To Adapt, The Creativity Post | Tweet
We cannot live our lives surrounded by the familiar and expect to embrace the new and different.
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MONEY
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The Warren Buffett Guide to Making Money, James Altucher | Tweet
I don’t know what’s going to happen to the US dollar. Or any of these stocks. Or my relationship with my wife. Or my relationships with my kids. One time a doctor told me we all have cancer cells, we just don’t see them all the time.
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WINE
They’re the reason you use emojis instead of email and Snapchats instead of real chats. But will millennials also upend the wine establishment? As Lettie Teague discovers, this relationship status is complicated.
