A new study shows happiness is a key factor in success. So, we found 5 ways – each backed by research – to get more happiness in your life.
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Does success bring more happiness to your life, or does happiness bring more success?
In today’s Music Lesson, we want to look at Supertramp’s The Logical Song. It’s about a young adult looking back on his life. He’s lost and he’s trying to understand why. What led him here?
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His education taught him to be “intellectual, cynical”.
And he learned. So well, in fact, that he lost himself. “Please tell me who I am,” he says.
In the process, he became cynical. A certain amount of skepticism is healthy. When it crosses that fine line and turns into cynicism, it’s unhealthy.
He says, “Watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal. Won’t you sign up your name? We’d like to feel you’re acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable.”
We wonder … does that mean he’s a couch potato?
Bigg success is life on your own terms. However, the young man in this song has learned that the world doesn’t want you to live your life on your own terms.
Go along to get along.
That’s what we’re taught to do. We’re supposed to fall in line. We’re not supposed to think for ourselves. We shouldn’t be too “out there”. Don’t get “too creative.”
We saw a great article on creativity from Scientific American Mind. In the article, the question was asked, “Why do so few people express creativity?”
Check out the answer by one of the experts:
He said that we “all express creativity when we’re young. But by the end of the first grade, very few of us do so.”
That’s what made us think of The Logical Song in the first place. Can you hear it …
“But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical.”
The expert in the article said the reason we lose our creativity is because of socialization. We learn to “stay on task.” We’re told to “stop daydreaming.” “Stop asking silly questions.” The result:
“… the expression of new ideas is largely shut down.”
“When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.”
Reconnect to your youth to rediscover your creativity. Think about another song – Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”.
See the wonder in the world. See the miracles around you. See the beauty that is ever present. See the magic as it happens.
View the world like a kid again and marvel.
“And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully, watching me.”
The first thing that jumped out at us was the very first word – “And”.
This second way to reconnect with yourself and your creativity is an extension of the first way. We must first get in touch with our child-like nature; then we can reconnect with nature.
Connect with nature personally. The young man in the song doesn’t just marvel at the birds singing. He hears them singing to him!
Of course, he turned into a radical!
Experts say creativity will be an increasingly valuable skill in the years ahead. There are a lot of opportunities to create the life you dream of living. Rediscover your creativity for bigg success!
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We read the transcript of a great speech, entitled How to Get Rich, given by Jared Diamond at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. It offers some great lessons in history, economics, and innovation.
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He asks the question, “What is the best way to organize human groups and human organizations and businesses so as to maximize productivity, creativity, innovation, and wealth?”
Now wouldn’t we all like to know the answer to that question?
He says that in the thirteen thousand years of human history, we have thousands upon thousands of “natural” experiments. To answer his question, he looked at extreme examples of societies in isolation.
The isolation begins
About ten thousand years ago, the places we know as Australia, Tasmania, and Flinders Island were connected – people could freely travel back and forth between them. Then the glaciers melted.
Even though they were only about 200 miles apart, the water-going craft of that era couldn’t traverse the rough seas between these three islands. So the 4,000 people of Tasmania and 200 people on Flinders Island became completely isolated from the rest of the world.
The isolation ends
In the seventeenth century, these two islands were “discovered” by the Europeans. The first to be rediscovered was Tasmania. It was noted that, at the time, the society was the least technologically advanced and most primitive group of people in the world.
They had no fire. They didn’t have any tools. They didn’t even know how to fish. In fact, archeologists have shown that they had less technology than they had ten thousand years before.
So, you ask, what about the 200 people on Flinders Island? When it was discovered around the same time, there were no people there. They became extinct.
So we learn that small isolated groups don’t innovate. They may even regress. This historical example got us thinking about islands that we create, often without even realizing that we’re placing ourselves in isolation.
Field
Discoveries aren’t isolated to a single field. If you only talk to people within your field, if you only consume content in your space, you’re missing out on a whole world of ideas that may be fruitful for your field.
Media
Many people only consume media with which they agree. Seek out the opposing point-of-view. When you do that, you’ll either reinforce your beliefs or you’ll start to discover other alternatives.
People
Universities often don’t hire graduates of their own programs as professors. They fear it will lead to nepotistic thinking. Let’s learn a lesson from their policy. Get outside your circles of friends and business associates. If you work in the for-profit world, get to know some people in the non-profit world. If you work in government, make sure some of your influencers are in the private sector.
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I’m a pretty social person. But looking back on my former businesses, I’ve come to realize that I wasn’t feeling fulfilled because I didn’t spend enough time seeking out ideas and alternatives outside my sphere.
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It’s so easy to get so busy running your business, working your career, or managing your life that you fail to invest important time in connecting yourself to people, places and things that expand your mind.
Islands are a great place to visit. Just make sure you don’t get stuck there.
What islands have you seen people create?
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"We recently saw a study that showed that nature-based recreation in the US has declined about 25% in the last 20 years, after increasing in the 50 years before that."
"So we did our show today in the middle of nature – we camped out! We recorded the show in front of a nice fire while we roasted marshmallows."
Studies have shown that being outdoors has some incredible health benefits. In fact, even just SEEING the outdoors is beneficial. A little while ago, we saw a study that showed that hospital patients with a window recover much faster from surgery than those without. Isn’t that amazing?
This same study cited numerous sources that showed that spending time outdoors can lower stress and decrease mental fatigue.
We’ve been talking about the benefits of being outdoors. Now let’s look at what the outdoors can do for one specific group of people – kids.
This same study we mentioned earlier showed that kids who spend more time outside pay attention better and are less demanding. It’s even been shown to reduce symptoms of Attention Deficit – Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
But going back to where we started, Americans are spending less time outdoors. Miracle-Gro, the garden fertilizer company, just conducted a survey. Nearly 70 percent of the parents who responded said their kids spend less time outdoors than they did when they were kids.
"My parents wouldn’t let my sister and me inside until it was dark. They wanted us to run off all that energy!"
"Now I know why Mary-Lynn brought me out here!"
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