How Patience Can Help You Find Your Purpose
A two-year study suggests practicing patience may be critical to finding and pursuing purpose.
Greater Good Resources for a Healthy Relationship With Technology
Managing technology in daily life is one of the biggest challenges we're facing in 2024. Here are some of our best articles and videos on the topic.
Greater Good Resources for Women’s Well-Being
For International Women's Day, we gathered articles that aim to help women take care of themselves and each other, make a living, raise children, and…
Four Great Gratitude Strategies
Here are the key research-based principles for turning gratitude into a lasting habit, drawing from the GGSC’s new website, Greater Good in Action.
Five Ways for Teachers to Recharge This Summer
Another school year is over. And just in time, here are activities from our new web resource to help teachers make the most of summer.
Happiness Greatest Hits
Today is the UN's International Day of Happiness! To celebrate, here's a list of some of our most illuminating and helpful happiness research, tools,…
Gratitude Greatest Hits
During the past three years, we've published dozens of articles and videos about the science of gratitude. Just in time for Thanksgiving, here are the…
Four Ways to Encourage Kindness in Students
Back-to-school tips: Research-based steps teachers can take to prime their students for kindness.
How to Reboot After Disappointment at Work
We can bounce back better from a disappointment if we pay more attention to our internal dialogue.
How to Fight Without Hurting Your Relationship
John and Julie Gottman explain what to do—and what to avoid—so your arguments actually make your relationship stronger.
Three Reasons Why You Need Anger
While anger gets a bad rap, studies suggest it can help us achieve difficult goals, if used wisely.
What to Do When You Don’t Like the Way You Feel (The Science of Happiness Podcast)
Our guest tried a practice in radical acceptance, a Buddhist principle made popular by today's expert, psychologist Tara Brach.
Happiness Break: Radical Acceptance, With Tara Brach
A meditation in meeting our most difficult emotions—like anger, disappointment, or fear—with mindfulness and gentle care.
What’s Wrong With Too Much Self-Control?
Self-control isn’t always a good thing. Being "overcontrolled" can be bad for your mental health.
Why We Should Share Our Good News (Not Just Our Struggles)
A new study suggests that when people respond enthusiastically to our good news, we feel more grateful and closer to them—especially as we age.
Six Ways to Hold Better Meetings
A communications expert offers tips for making your work meetings more productive and enjoyable.