Uncomfortable Truths About Comfortable Lies in Wellbeing Science + Wellness Culture
Fighting the Good Fight While Others Hide Behind Meditation Apps.
The rebels we need right now aren't the ones making noise for attention —they're the ones asking better questions.
In this CivilTalk episode (link), I sat with Topacio to explore what it takes to challenge absurdity in social interactions, the workplace, and a tyrannical government with courage and wisdom.
Specific personality dimensions separate effective principled nonconformists from those who merely make waves. More importantly, we can cultivate these skills in ourselves. It’s part of a line of research in
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Todd B. Kashdan is the author of several books including The Upside of Your Dark Side (Penguin) and The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively (Avery/Penguin) and Professor of Psychology and Founder of The Well-Being Laboratory at George Mason University.
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When Well-Being Science Lost Its Mind (And How We Might Save It)
Every field has its shadow. Positive psychology was supposed to be the antidote to pathology. A science of flourishing. A blueprint for a life worth living. And for a while, it felt like it might deliver until it started spinning in circles, slapping smiley faces on suffering, and outsourcing human complexity to PowerPoint decks.