On the eve of her 107th birthday, I interviewed Clara Font at the adult day care center she visits every day. She was engaging, lucid, and funny. I sat down…
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Character Strengths and Excellence in Sport
by John Yeagerby John YeagerMost people involved in sport agree that proper behavior makes the sport better and that character matters. While there is a great amount of attention paid today to ideals of…
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How You Tell the Story of Your Life
by Senia Mayminby Senia MayminJennifer Aniston will be starring in a movie about Positive Psychology. The movie is expected to be called “Counter Clockwise,” and Aniston will play Harvard Professor Ellen Langer studying how to turn…
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Do Not Take the Contemplative Panic!
Skiing for the first time in my life earlier this year, I was offered by my wonderful Italian ski instructor a new positive psychology construct I want to share with…
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Positive Psychology in the United Kingdom – An Across the Pond Perspective
by John Yeagerby John YeagerI had the wonderful opportunity to attend and present at the 1st Annual Applied Positive Psychology Conference at The University of Warwick in April. Sponsored by the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology, over 200 delegates representing 24 countries were in attendance. The program, entitled People at their Best in Work, Education and Health, featured a variety of valuable keynotes and instructive and informative workshops and paper presentations. […]
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Physical Activity and the Good Life
by Gloria Parkby Gloria ParkThe Department of Health and Human Services, in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, launched a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention initiative called Healthy People 2010. One of the focus areas from this initiative is to increase the amount of physical activity in the largely sedentary population, in hopes of supporting physical health and reducing the staggering number of preventable deaths. For example, in the year 2000, of 2,391,399 deaths, 1,159,000 (48%) were from preventable causes. Furthermore and estimated 400,000 of those deaths were due to poor diet and physical inactivity. […]
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Sick Patients, Sicker System?
by Peter Minichby Peter MinichFew procedures are more complex, more demanding than organ transplantation. Few are more satisfying; seeing a patient leave hospital with a new lease on life is incredibly gratifying to those…
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Alice in “Performance” Wonderland – Non-Zero Challenges the Red Queen
by John Yeagerby John YeagerIn 1954, the sports world was shocked when Great Britain’s Roger Bannister broke the four minute-mile barrier by six tenths of a second. For years, track and field experts…
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Praise and Performance
by Gloria Parkby Gloria ParkVery vividly, I remember the first time I tried to do swizzles. A swizzle is one of the most basic skating moves, where both feet simultaneously trace outlines of coke…
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Every few days or so, when I need a break from the world, I go to my sanctuary on top of a remote mountain in the Canadian Rockies. Well, at…
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How to Bake a Flow Cake
by Gloria Parkby Gloria ParkHave you ever caught yourself so immersed and absorbed in an activity that hours pass and you feel as though you’ve only been doing it for minutes? Have you ever…
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Create New Habits: Self-Regulation
by Senia Mayminby Senia MayminWelcome to February. Has your life changed since the New Year? Do you want it to? What is the #1 habit you want to create right now? Do you want…
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Sports – A Vehicle for Happiness
by John Yeagerby John YeagerSports can be a vehicle for happiness. Although the purposes of sports are varied and mean different things to different people, many would agree that organized sport participation can be…