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Probably one of the best articles out there!  One of the most successful people on earth, Richard Branson, will change how you perceive and judge success.
“Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.”

Dr. Susan David, the author of the book Emotional Agility, about the importance of “bad” emotions to our mental health and happiness.
“What they are failing to recognise is our emotions, our sadness, our frustration, our anger, our emotions, contain really useful data. So when you are feeling guilty as a parent – it doesn’t mean that guilt is right, emotions are data not directions”

Brett Ford From the University of Toronto about the acceptance of negative emotions as an inseparable part of the human experience. “acceptance involves not trying to change how we are feeling, but staying in touch with your feelings and taking them for what they are.” “acceptance of one’s dark emotions is now backed by a body of evidence connecting the habit to better emotional resilience, and fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety.”

Dr. Susan David, the author of the book Emotional Agility, gives us a taste of what science has to say about Tony Robbins and his latest advice on happiness.
“The reason strategies to avoid negativity fail is because the internal struggle to control our thoughts and emotions actually amplifies them”

An interesting article, written by a psychotherapist, about the negative effects of fighting negativity.
“In recent years I have noticed an increase in the number of people who also feel guilty or ashamed about what they perceive to be negativity. Such reactions undoubtedly stem from our culture’s overriding bias toward positive thinking. Although positive emotions are worth cultivating, problems arise when people start believing they must be upbeat all the time.”

I don’t know if that comes to you as a surprise or not, but when feeling blue, positive thinkers just aren’t good to have around. PLOS ONE study finds that positive thinking makes people believe that they are being more empathetic towards others, while in fact, they show a lower sensitivity to the emotions of others.

Mark Bonchek will try to shift your thinking and explain why nowadays, our main problem isn’t learning, it’s unlearning, and how can you improve yourself by forgetting. “we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. To embrace the new logic of value creation, we have to unlearn the old one.”

“We’re caught in between the structures of the future, which are still self-assembling, and the structures of the past, which are being disassembled. When it comes to getting things done, what we think we know about the how the world works is not always useful. To keep things moving, we have no choice but to unlearn.”
Beth Comstock shares some of her methods of Unlearning as and the tools she uses to thoroughly and consciously disprove her own assumptions about the world.

Philip Perry about the transference of neurosis and anxiety through the generations. “What Prof. Meaney hypothesized was that a parent who experienced a trauma could have certain changes in their brain which might lead to epigenetic changes that were passed on, inhabiting the neurons of their children’s brains or even their grandchildren.”