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My Favorite Nuggets of Goodness

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Practical Happiness for Everyday Life
Practice Happiness
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander Practical wisdom for living a life of contribution, joy, and laughter.

Make friends with reality
Make friends with reality
Awareness by Father Anthony De Mello Anthony De Mello tells stories and invites us to wake up to see life’s potential.

Quicken Loan Founder, TED Talk Speaker, Psychologist.
Dan Gilbert
TED Talk: The Surprising Science of Happiness by Dan Gilbert Dan Gilbert explains why happiness is both a choice and a biological phenomenon.

Heidi Grant Halvorson: HBR Blogger and Associate Director at Columbia University Motivation Science Center
Heidi Grant Halvorson: HBR Blogger and Associate Director at Columbia University Motivation Science Center
The Incredible Benefits of a “Get Better” Mindset by Heidi Grant Halvorson Heidi Halvorson explains that a learning mentality is critical to happiness.

Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
TED Talk: The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi What we hear in a single story is not, cannot be, the whole truth. Seeking a larger context is both lovely and essential.

Find out about "The Adjacent Possible"
Find out about “The Adjacent Possible”
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson Brilliance is sometimes born, more often accumulated over time. Also, his TED Talk is pretty cool.

Kathryn Shulz, yep. She's awesome.
Kathryn Shulz. Yep, she’s awesome.
On Being Wrong by Kathryn Shulz Being wrong often feels pretty good. Why? She’ll explain.