Part of being human involves making assumptions about the intentions and behaviour of others. We make our minds up about the intentions of others without having solid evidence to support our thinking. The more we feel we are being manipulated, the more suspicious we become. People can have hidden agendas and many still operate from the egocentric standpoint, as they …
A Happiness Manifesto
Happiness is such a broad term and means many different things to different people. Even psychologists, social scientists and economists argue about what happiness actually is. Despite all this chit chat behind the scenes, there is more and more research around the topic. A lot of this has arisen from the positive psychology field, which has become more prominent over …
Realistic Sources of Hope
Martin Luther King said, „If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.“ Alas, life’s travails can make one lose hope. Here are, I believe, legitimate sources of hope when …