Today marks a Happy Talent milestone -- my first guest post! James Emry is the CEO and Founder of The Best Practice Life and bestselling author of Positive-ly Uncertain: Learn the New Hack to Hit the Happiness Jackpot. Today, he shares some important thoughts and research on the instinct for idleness.
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How One Rapper Brought a Whole 5th Grade Classroom to Tears (and Why UW-Madison is Awesome)8/19/2015 As a Paved With Verbs Life Coach and College Admissions Counselor, it is my job to know everything that's happening at every university at all times. Which is how I came upon this (warning: it's sort of a tearjerker -- but, like, totally happy tears):
What an amazing collaboration! Bringing mindfulness -- a centuries-old practice -- into the classroom seems to improve both academic performance and emotional well-being.
Attention everyone: The Happy Talent (and Paved With Verbs) is in YourTango! I recently wrote 4 Reasons A Tutor is the WORST Thing You Can Do For Your Child -- and it's all based on my master's research and experience as a college admissions counselor and life coach.
Here's the gist of it -- there are four very powerful psychological reasons why your student shouldn't have a tutor. Unless, of course, they're legitimately struggling in an academic subject and need the extra help.
This week, The Atlantic published The Coddling of the American Mind: How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus. Obviously, I agreed wholeheartedly -- I am all about the interpersonal basis for abnormal psychology. I've written all about developing resilience and coping skills in high school and college students.
Besides, it's basically the exact same thing I said about little girls and body image when the well-meaning parents and educators threw a big, fat hissy fit over the size of Lily James's waist when the Cinderella trailer came out last March. You Won’t Believe What This Cop Did After Disarming a Robber, or How to be Better at Everything8/10/2015
A while back, I attended an Urban Escape and Evasion talk given by Kevin Reeve, founder of onPoint Tactical Training School and former Navy SEAL instructor. He shared the following story (which I’m totally paraphrasing):
A police officer I knew decided that he wanted to learn how to disarm a criminal. So I taught him how – and I instructed him, “In order to actually be able to do this under pressure, you need to practice. Every single day.” So he did! He went home and he practiced every single day with his wife, who had the patience of a saint. Every day, she would point an unloaded gun at him, and he would disarm her. Over and over and over, for 15, 30, 45 minutes! And then – lo and behold! – one day, this officer visited a convenience store in a seedy neighborhood. While he was there, an armed robber attempted to hold up the store. Just like he’d practiced – thousands of times! – the officer safely, successfully disarmed the robber. But then… he did the strangest thing.
So you're at a party, and you see a woman who is -- heaven forbid! -- NOT smiling. Do you:
a) Avoid her -- she's clearly in a bad mood. b) Go ask her, "Are you okay?" "Is everything alright?" or some variation thereof c) Treat her like a normal person who happens to not be smiling If you answered anything but C, you are a rude, sexist jerk.
In my last post, I wrote that The Biggest Stress Eaters (no pun intended)… Are Dieters. It’s true – dieting requires executive function, and doing it continuously can deplete your ego, which hurts your ability to self-regulate.
But stress eating is actually a lot more complicated than that. It turns out that stress causes 67% of Americans to crave food. But not just any food. No -- stress specifically causes us to crave carbohydrates. And, under certain conditions, carbs have an effect on the brain that’s similar to that of Valium.
Here's why:
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