Category: Happiness
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Zen in the art of traditional singing
I used to believe I had permanently destroyed my voice. As a teenager I sang serious classical stuff in various choirs and music school. Then I moved in to a student dorm, and switched to screaming on top of my lungs while drinking and smoking heavily. After a year or two of such practice, I…
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Dirty little hacks – how I trick my monkey mind to get stuff done on time
Whoever said “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”, has most probably never had a job at all. Even doing the most awesome stuff, with the most amazing colleagues by your side, there’s always going to be angry customers to deal with, unpopular decisions to…
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Perfect is the enemy of done
My boyfriend and I rent a cubicle in the coworking office nearby. To feel more at home, he’s hung a few things on the cubicle wall – including a picture I made on a painting class last year. It was my first painting on canvas ever, and while it might look pleasant from a certain distance,…
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5 books to read if you’re losing faith in humanity
Even if you’re the most optimistic person in the world, following world news can recently feel quite overwhelming. It seems that technical progress has far outpaced our mental growth, and the four-year-olds in us are not yet ready for the inventions of modern civilization. If you slowly get to believe that humanity is screwed, or caught yourself looking for a safe hideaway…
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2016 was the best year ever
I’m 100% serious here. I can clearly see many alarming global and local trends, but the worst trend of all is the attention economy that rewards extremism and apocalyptic beliefs. I know some regions of the world are deeply torn by terror and war, but when you put that in proper perspective we’re still living in…
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Survival Kit (Not Just) For Customer Support
For some of my friends it’s hard to believe it, but I do love working in customer support. There’s a certain kind of joy that comes from helping people, that can hardly be felt if you’re just interacting with machines all day. However, for every 50 customers who are all happy and grateful, there’s always…
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Drive: What motivates us, and how not to kill it
Imagine a workplace without carrots and sticks. No hands-on control of what people do and how they do it, no extra rewards for great performance, no extra punishments for falling behind. Sounds pretty abstract, doesn’t it? If you’re like most people, you wouldn’t probably bet on this company’s success. Yet when there’s some innovative job to…
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Let the Happiness journey begin!
Today I’m starting a new job as a Happiness Engineer. Yes, seriously. This is in fact a real job title, at least as real as it gets in a company that shows complete disregard for titles and hierarchy. I told a few people I’d work as a Happiness Engineer and was amused by their reactions. Some…
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Hacking the autopilot
Some people say, every seven years your body fully replaces all of its cells so that you become a brand new person. However far from being scientifically accurate, this theory makes lots of sense in my case. It may be hard to believe, but seven years ago I was extremely anxious, depressed, trying to cure my depression…
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