Trinity School News & Blog
Being Mean: Life on the Playground
Meanness happens. Moreover, sometimes meanness comes from your child toward another child. It might be planned. It might be the unthinking brilliance of the opportunity at hand. At some time your child will be mean to someone else. When being [...]
What You See Makes You 10% Happy
So where do you go for the other 90%? Shawn Achor, who spoke recently for the Common Ground Speaker Series, posits that the external world is only 10% predictive of happiness. The characteristics that serve as real predictors of happiness [...]
Three Good Things Train Your Brain to Be Happier
Shawn Achor’s third principle in The Happiness Advantage is “The Tetris Effect.” Imagine playing Tetris for days in a row. Students in a study actual did, and for days after they saw Tetris patterns falling when they closed their eyes. [...]
Seven Principles for the Happiness Advantage
The Happiness Advantage author Shawn Achor speaks to the parents of the Common Ground coalition of independent schools. Scroll to the end of this post for where and when. Shawn Achor will surely speak about the seven principles derived from [...]
Claim Your Happy
Reading The Happiness Advantage, I learn, with the research sources neatly annotated by Achor along the way, that having a positive outlook or, when down, being able to reclaim a positive outlook has helpful biological results on your body and [...]
Do I Really Want to Be Happy?
A professor in one of my writing classes said that a story can’t survive on goodness alone. Evil, or at least un-good is what creates the story in a story. Check it out. Mary had a little lamb is a [...]