kindness
How Small, Easy Acts of Joy Improve Happiness and Well-Being
A community science project finds that modest reminders to find joy in the day can have benefits that are on par with those of more ambitious well-being interventions
How to Be More Charismatic, but Not Too Much More
It turns out that being charming has a happy mean.
In Times of Trouble, Seek Moral Beauty
The lovely paradox of doing good in the world is that it does you good too.
Instead, he volunteered to take the place of a man randomly selected to be starved to death in retribution for another prisoner’s escape. After several weeks without food, he was still clinging to life and leading other prisoners in prayer. The impatient guards finished him off by lethal injection…
When you can see moral beauty in others, you will find goodness in yourself as well.
The small exercise that's a powerful mood booster
Counting our blessings is an age-old piece of advice – but it turns out that writing lists of good things that happen to us actually does help improve our mood.
Make Yourself Happy: Be Kind
How to break the negative feedback loop that can make us act mean
Small acts of kindness matter more than you think
Text a friend, write a thank-you note, compliment a stranger — people appreciate these gestures.
Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness
How do you avoid becoming a Brilliant Jerk? Read this article to learn practical tips on communication, honesty and psychological safety.
Kind gestures bring recipients more joy than we assume
Our underestimation of how people feel receiving a small act of kindness can actual hinder us from extending those gestures, research finds.
Resonance: How to Open Doors For Other People
Opening doors for other people is a critical concept to understand in life. Read this article to learn more about how to show people that you care.
Give Your Money. Give Your Time. Don’t Tell Anyone.
You can find deep, lasting happiness in a good deed that no one knows you did.
Sunday Firesides: Don’t Confuse Niceness With Kindness
We often use the words “nice” and “kind” synonymously. But it can be helpful to distinguish between the two qualities, as Eric Kapitulik, Marine special operator and leadership coach, does. Being nice means making people feel good in the short-term. Behaving politely. Offering a…
Three types of kindness
There is the kindness of ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ And the kindness of “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” The small kindnesses that smooth our interactions and help other people feel as th…
The fast track to a life well lived is feeling grateful
Being ‘good’ need not take years of ethical analysis: just a few moments of gratitude can set you on the path to virtue
Being Empathetic Is Easier when Everyone’s Doing It
Research is revealing the key to motivating empathy—and making it stick
A Strange Encounter With A Stranger
We all need picked up out of a roadside ditch now and then