When you’re stressed out about everything that's happening—whether it's in your inner world or your external surroundings—it's easy to forget how to be happy. But happiness isn’t a given, so you have ...

Five ways to harness the life-changing  benefits of dancing We like to think that we are always in control of our thoughts, emotions and behaviours, but actually – unless we are aware of these ...

While activities that people typically do with others, like eating and drinking, were understandably linked with more ...

Arthur Brooks is a professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School and the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a columnist at The Atlantic, ...

Brooks explores why that raise at work won’t make you happy, and how money actually influences wellbeing. He also shares how approaching your life “like a startup entrepreneur” can add excitement and ...

One of the biggest gripes I have about my academic field of social science is that it explains a lot about human behavior but is very short on prescriptions for how to live day to day. Even when it ...

Setting yourself up for a good day doesn’t just mean having a solid morning routine in place (though that’s important too). How you spend your evenings is a key part of the equation, yet one that’s ...

“Birds of a feather flock together,” the popular adage goes. It suggests people in a relationship who are similar to each other personality-wise are likely to be happier and stick together, while ...