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Lifestyles & Personal Growth - Reference WWW.MINDTOOLS.COM -- The MindTools website has many brief, easy to read articles on personal growth and development: WWW.MFTROU.COM -- The Management for the Rest of Us website has good articles on:
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Study Demonstrates How We Support Our False Beliefs |
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Psychology and Sociology Journal -- Aug. 21, 2009 -- The data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as 'motivated reasoning,' which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. In fact, for the most part people completely ignore contrary information. (Full Article) |
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Articles on the Human Mind from Brain Mysteries |
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Brain Mysteries website -- Interesting articles about the brain based on recent scientific studies. Categories include attitude, arguments, awareness, behavior, belief, competition, cooperation, decision-making, happiness, identity, leadership, learning, motivation, morals, perception, persuasion, problem-solving, and more. (Full Subject List) |
by Elizabeth Rogers -- Spring 2009 -- The "mental clutter" in your head like unrealistic expectations, guilt, seemingly impossible-to-overcome obstacles, fear, stress and poor time management skills can hold you back from living well. So what you can do to clean up the internal clutter? In his latest book, Enough Already! Clearing the Mental Clutter to Become the Best You expert cleaning guru Peter Walsh tackles this very subject. (Full Article)
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Yes Magazine -- Winter 2008 -- What makes us happy? It’s a question we could leave to philosophers and poets, except for this: the pursuit of happiness, as now defined, is running our world into the ground. So the question that may turn out to be key to our future is: How can we have happy people and a happy planet? (Full Article)
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The Psychology of Happiness: 13 Steps to a Better Life |
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Get Rich Slowly -- August 25, 2008 -- We think we know what will make us happy, but we don’t. Many of us believe that money will make us happy, but it won’t. Except for the very poor, money cannot buy happiness. Instead of dreaming of vast wealth, we should dream of close friends and healthy bodies and meaningful work. (Full Article)
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Why Your Happiness Matters to the Planet |
by Moises Velasquez-Manoff -- July 22, 2008 -- A survey by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research underscores that, beyond a certain point, material wealth doesn’t boost happiness. The United States, which ranked 16th and has the world’s largest economy, has largely stalled in happiness gains – this despite ever more buying power. Americans are now twice as rich as they were in 1950, but no happier, according to the survey. (Full Article)
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21 Must-Read Articles on Happiness |
Marc and Angel Hack Life -- June 18, 2008 -- Each of these articles delivers a unique, healthy message concerning the topic of happiness. I’ve read them all… and yes, I think you should read them too. They need no further introduction. Enjoy! (Full Article)
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The Gospel of Consumption |
by Jeffrey Kaplan -- June 2008 -- By the late 1920s, America’s business and political elite had found a way to defuse the dual threat of stagnating economic growth and a radicalized working class in what one industrial consultant called “the gospel of consumption”—the notion that people could be convinced that however much they have, it isn’t enough. (Full Article)
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You Might Be a Progressive If ... |
by Michael Schwalbe -- May 30, 2008 -- If the label “progressive” has meaning at all, it is only because of some shared criteria we have in mind when we use it. So it might be worthwhile to put these criteria on the table ... to spark a conversation about the common ground of ideas and values on which progressives stand. (Full Article)
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Ecological Footprint Calculator |
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Redefining Progress -- The Ecological Footprint Quiz was first developed in 2002 with Earth Day Network to provide a simple, yet powerful, way for people to measure their impact on the earth. In 2008, Redefining Progress updated the Ecological Footprint Quiz with a revised methodology and current statistics. Get the answers to frequently asked questions about the quiz at Footprint Quiz FAQs. Take the Quiz by visiting myfootprint.org. |
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Easy ways to cut your energy use, one day at a time |
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by Chip Giller -- Nov. 5, 2007 -- Grist prez Chip Giller appeared on NBC's Today show on Monday, Nov. 5, chatting with Meredith Vieira about easy ways anyone can cut their energy use and help fight global warming. Follow one hint a day and you're on your way! (Full Article) |
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Top 10 Actions (from the Better World Handbook) |
The Better World Handbook -- 2007 Edition -- If you are excited about making the world a little better but don't know where to start...consider starting with our shortlist of what we consider the most powerful actions in the book. (Full Article)
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A Guide to Ecolabelling - Who's Deciding What's Green? |
Ecolabelling.org -- Ecolabelling.org looks at the sources of more than 260 different ecolabels from around the globe -- labels covering everything from organic food to building products -- with the intent of cutting out consumer confusion around green labelling schemes. (Full Article)
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This is Your Brain on Optimism |
by Sarah Kliff -- Oct. 24, 2007 -- We humans tend to be an optimistic bunch. The optimism bias, as it's called, accounts for the fact that we expect to live longer and be more successful than the average and we tend to underestimate the likelihood of getting a serious disease or a divorce. (Full Article)
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Don't Just Be the Change, Mass-Produce It |
by Alex Steffen -- Sept. 12, 2007 -- We don't need more people living marginally greener lifestyles. We need thousands of people, millions of people, swarming out of their lifestyles and leading worldchanging lives. (Full Article)
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by Mark Morford -- May 2, 2007 -- All this hot enthusiasm for healing the planet and eating whole foods and avoiding chemicals and working with nature and developing the self? Came from the hippies. Alternative health? Hippies. Green cotton? Hippies. Reclaimed wood? Recycling? Humane treatment of animals? Medical pot? Alternative energy? Natural childbirth? Non-GMO seeds? (Full Article)
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Stop Shopping ... or the Planet Will Go Pop |
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by David Smith -- Apr. 8, 2007 -- We have become a generation of shopaholics. We are bombarded by advertising from every medium which persuades us that the more we consume, the better our lives will be. Shopping is equated with fun, fulfilment and self-identity. It is also killing the planet. (Full Article) |
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The Challenge of Affluence |
Energy Bulletin Staff -- Mar. 23, 2007 -- From a Oxford scholar Avner Offer comes scientific evidence for the thesis that increasing material wealth no longer brings happiness. His hefty tome, The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950, is probably the most definitive work thus far on the issue. The articles below give some hints to his thinking. (Full Article)
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“Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Chief Seattle
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