Gratitude from Growing Up in the Depression Years

While I was out in Idaho, Jesse Posey gave me a sketch that he had written about growing up there during the depression years. It was a very interesting piece about habits of gratitude coming out of a hard beginning.
Since this piece has been published in a magazine (Jesse couldn’t remember where), I’m not [...]

Answer to Barack Obama Question about American Competitiveness

I’ve written this answer twice to a LinkedIn question and had the connection be reset when I tried to save it. So I think I’ll do a third brain dump here where I know I can save it! (If you can’t see the question and other answers, I suspect you need to register [...]

Savoring an early summer day

Savoring is a set of skills that can be learned in order to increase the positive emotion we experience in our day-to-day existences.
Psychologists Fred Bryant and Joseph Veroff published a book last year on this subject:
Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience

According to them, savoring involves noticing and appreciating the positive aspects of life. In [...]

Positive Emotion Image Map

I’ve been an active contributor to Positive Psychology News Daily (PPND) ever since it started. PPND is an online publication about positive psychology with regular articles by people who have gone through an applied positive psychology training program — the one at Penn and the one at East London University. We also occasionally [...]