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Study Reveals the Upside of Stress
In 1975, Salvatore Maddi, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, began to study the long-term impact of stress on employees at the Illinois Bell ...
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Every Crisis Is an Invitation
"Crises of every kind will find us … [But] these crises enter our lives not just as challenges to us to retain our balance and stability, ...
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How to Reframe Trials and Trauma
Maria Konnikova wrote a fascinating piece in The New Yorker on resilience. Resilience is hard to study because "[i]f you are lucky enough to never ...
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How Clay Turns into Gems under Pressure
Geologist Dr. James Clark recounts visiting the Soviet Union a few years after Communism dissolved. He was asked to preach at a small Russian Baptist ...
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Pro Baseball Star Explains True Success
In an interview with Ben Zobrist, then Kansas City Royals left-fielder and one of Major League Baseball's most valuable players (retired from the ...
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Birds that Need a Storm to Soar
The albatross, a majestic seabird with the longest wingspan of any bird, spends eighteen months at sea, touching down only on water, losing their ability ...
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Lincoln's Failed Grocery Startup Leads to Success
A young man from an impoverished background dreamed of a better life for himself and his family than the hardscrabble existence he had known growing up. ...
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Research Finds Link Between Stress and Happiness
From 2005 to 2006, researchers from the Gallup World Poll asked more than 125,000 people from 121 countries one question: Did you feel a great deal of ...
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Closed vs. Open Mind-Sets
Researcher Carol Dweck did a series of studies on how people handle adversity, particularly when they face limitations, obstacles, failure, and change. ...
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Life Is Like Hitting a Knuckleball
Everything about baseball is predicated on precision and predictability. A .260 hitter might have a good or bad year, but eventually he will revert to ...
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