11 Posts found for Source: HBS Working Knowledge

Your legacy is every life you touch.

Author: Maya Angelou | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

We have what we call a negativity bias. That means we literally have more brain space reserved for negative emotions than we have for positive emotions. Why? Positive emotions are nice to have. Negative emotions will keep you alive.

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

Unhappiness and happiness are not opposites. They’re largely processed in different hemispheres of the brain. Happiness is not an absence of unhappiness nor vice versa. On the contrary, you need both happy and unhappy, negative and positive emotions all the time.

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Happiness, Psychology | Behavior

Not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great. Because greatness is determined by service.

Author: Martin Luther King Jr. | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

You want money, power, pleasure, and fame. That’s what you want, right? If you make those things the goals, you’re in trouble. You’re in trouble. The goals are faith, family, friends, and work that serves. You can use money, power, pleasure, and fame but only as a springboard to those other things.

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The real formula for satisfaction that endures is all the things that you have divided by all the things that you want. Haves divided by wants.

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

[Happiness is] enjoyment plus satisfaction plus meaning or purpose. And if you get this this enjoyment thing wrong, you’re going to get addiction. Anything that you do that feels good and you’re doing it alone again and again and again and again, [is] addiction, not happiness. Add people. Add memories. That’s the point.

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Emotions are not good things and bad things. Positive and negative emotions are simply information about the outside world. You need your negative emotions because in the Pleistocene you’d be hunted down by a saber tooth tiger. And today without your negative emotions, you’d get run over by a car.

You need negative emotions. And that means you can’t be happy. What you can be with … [ Read more ]

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

We can manage our emotions by thinking about them, understanding them, getting space between what we feel and what we decide to do.

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Happiness is not a feeling. Happiness and feelings are related, but feelings are evidence of happiness… You have to understand that those feelings that you have, they’re related to something tangible that you can understand, that you can actually manage.

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Jealousy means someone else has something that you want. Wallow in it for a few minutes, and then realize that someone else’s good fortune isn’t your misfortune. Behind jealousy is “I’m not getting what I deserve.” Sadly, that might be true. Welcome to reality—life isn’t fair.

Author: Stever Robbins | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior