Thomas Ramey Watson

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10 Thinking Errors That Will Prevent You From Being Mentally Strong

Mental strength requires a three-pronged approach — managing our thoughts, regulating our emotions, and behaving productively despite our circumstances. While all three areas can be a struggle, it’s often our thoughts that make it most difficult to be mentally strong. As we go about our daily routines, our internal monologue narrates our experience. Our self-talk

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Psychologists Say Doing These 7 Activities Will Make You Happier

Happiness is good for you. Psychology research shows that happy people make more money, perform better at work, live longer, and have better marriages than everyone else. But the causes of happiness are elusive — philosophers have been trying to figure it out for thousands of years. Over the past few decades psychological science has

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“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.”

In a section of his 1843 masterwork Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (public library), which also gave us Kierkegaard on our greatest source of unhappiness, the Danish philosopher defines boredom as a sense of emptiness and examines it not as an absence of stimulation but as an absence of meaning — an idea that also

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At Age 11, His Parents ‘Returned’ Him. But What Happened Next Is Just As Important.

Below, a mesmerizing speaker weaves a story of the state’s systemic neglect of the child. He mentions the tales of many fictional characters, but I’d say the most enthralling part of the talk is his own story, beginning at 4:05. Don’t miss it. Watch video.

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