LEADERBOARD - Masterclass - 032 - How to Lead A More Meaningful Life - Part 2
0THEME: Personal Development
LESSON: How to Lead A More Meaningful Life - Part 2
All personal philosophy is the search for a way to rationalise or understand our own experiences in the past. It is an attempt to keep history in the rear view mirror.
Classical science on the other hand exists to help us get outside of the box and beyond our own personal borders and boundaries.
Shall we explore some more of what science has recently discovered?
1. You Can Change Your Relationship Styles
When caregivers are available to respond to children’s needs, attachment theory says, children develop a secure attachment style: They trust others and feel comfortable relying on loved ones. However, when caregivers fail to meet children’s needs, they can develop insecure attachment, which makes it harder to sustain relationships in adulthood.
However, a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that people can actually start to change their attachment style over time and feel better about their relationships. It might not be as hard as we think to transform those fixed habits.
2. Music Can Make You More Creative & Mindful
Music is an important element of every culture in the world, and for good reason. Our shared love of music helps connect us socially, in part by enhancing kind, helpful, generous behaviors. But recent research suggests that music has other potential benefits that we are only beginning to understand. Namely, it seems to increase our mindfulness and our ability to think creatively.
In one study, participants who listened to music were tested on creative-thinking tasks. Those who listened to happy music were significantly better at a specific creative skill called divergent thinking. This means that they were better at coming up with more novel, imaginative ideas. Interestingly, whether or not participants liked the music did not affect the results.
3. Taking Care Of Others Might Be Good For Your Own Resilience
Well-being is a skill that we hone with practice. Whether that’s practicing gratitude, empathy, or mindfulness. But how do we practice resilience, the ability to navigate stress and adversity in a healthy way? A new study this year by researchers at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that comforting others seems to serve as a kind of exercise that helps us deal with our own struggles.
In an experiment, 166 participants spent three weeks interacting on a social network where they could express their distress about something and comment on other people’s posts. In the end, the researchers found that the more helpful comments participants posted about other people’s problems, the more the commenters’ happiness and mood increased Furthermore, they even experienced less personal negative symptoms over the course of the experiment.
Instinctively you know, it help you to help others.
Or, as we say, what goes around comes back around sooner or later.
Think about what you can improve around you.
Today is already yesterday's tomorrow.
Today's Key Words & Phrases
Rationalise + Caregivers + Attachment Theory + Sustain + Divergent + Gratitude + Adversity + Struggle
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