The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the daily lives of college students, resulting in elevated levels of stress, anxiety, and isolation. Research suggests positive psychology interventions aimed at practicing gratitude, offer potential benefits in reducing these common mental health problems....
To conclude this chapter, I want to quote one paragraph from Frankl’s (1985) Man’s Search for Meaning that indicates that decades ago he already realized that the domain of meaning in life was much broader in scope than most positive psychologists acknowledge. Long ago we had passed the s...
“Real economics is the study of how people transform nature to meet their needs” - a quote from one of the ecologists. Again: … what? Apparently things like markets and services aren’t part of real economics. A later quote reads, “Why should economics be a social science, because it...
A vector autoregression is estimated on tick-by-tick data for quote-changes and signed trades of two-year, five-year and 10-year on-the-run US Treasury notes. Confirming the results found by Hasbrouck (1991) and others for the stock market, signed order flow tends to exert a strong ...
‘peoples.'” The full quote as I found it online: “We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves,’ the universe ‘peoples.’ Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total ...
It also examines the goals in life that we consider to be really important to us. All this may sound "airy-fairy and impractical" - to quote Prime Minister David Cameron - but this isn't pop psychology or self-help. Positive psychology, although it has only been around for about 10 ...
A famous quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw is: “We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” The positive psychology movement may have legs to encourage more research on playfulness in older people and test whether having a playful disposition may ...
This quote represented the genuine awkwardness of broaching the subject at all. The fact that the issue of recruitment targets and positive action was a subject felt to be barred from discussion in the parade room illustrated a distinct inability to make sense of the organisational decision making...
At the end of the day, I tally up my accomplishments for the day. My work is quantifiable by time and/or amount of work completed. I also give myself points – 2 points for every 45 minutes to 1 hour of deep work and 1 point for every task or light work completed within a few ...
’ -from the Great Quotes of Don Moss, Volume 3, Quote # 1378 Thus, another Destroy essay conceived & now wending its way out of the vaginal cavity. Let me be blunt- Sharon Olds is a very bad poet... The legs open. Hear the echo- echo- echo- echo... 26) Mary Oliver/Why?/Jo...