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Happiness Doesn’t Come From Experiences, It Comes From Within

· Leave a Comment · In Conversations, Life Skills, Motivation, Psychology

Author Jonathan Haidt discusses the theories of happiness and positivity in his book The Happiness Hypothesis

by Adrienne Rodney

We often equate happiness with health, success and a lot of good luck; without these things depression ensues. But Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and professor at NYU-Stern School of Business says otherwise.

We interviewed Haidt about [...]

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Adrienne Rodney Interviews Adrienne Rodney About Her New Job Search

· 13 Comments · In Conversations, Interviewing, Job Hunting, Lessons Learned, Life Skills, Work

Adrienne Rodney is leaving her job as Brooke’s assistant and decided to talk about what she is doing and how she is going about it.

NSoW: So you’re looking for a new job. Why are you leaving your current one?

Adrienne: When I started working for Brooke almost three years ago (April 2010) it [...]

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Go Back to College – For Free

· 12 Comments · In Announcement, Conversations, Education, Motivation

Back on September 5 of 2012 Brooke Allen sent an email to the NSoW mailing list inviting subscribers to join us in a free class. So many people wrote that we decided to post it as an article so they could add comments about their experiences.

 

Dear All,

Adrienne and I have [...]

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Smash in Your TV and Set Your Mind Free

· 3 Comments · In Book Review, Conversations, Motivation, Philosophy, TV Alternatives, Working for Free

by Brooke Allen

I was eight when we got our first television. Although it cost a month’s take-home pay, my parents consumed it sparingly, as if it were candy.

In the eighth grade I became interested in Amateur Radio, and lost interest in TVs configured as [...]

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Morality and Business – What You Can Do

· 2 Comments · In Conversations, Economics, Education, Ethics

by: Brooke Allen

A discussion with Bill Black.

William Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-07. Bill is an outspoken critic of our regulators, banking, [...]

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Conversation with Tom Heinzen

· 2 Comments · In Conversations, Economics, Job Hunting, Psychology

A conversation between Brooke Allen (founder of NSoW) and Tom Heinzen who is a Professor of Psychology at William Paterson University in New Jersey, a practicing psychotherapist, and co-author of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Many Things to Tell You: Natural Poetry by People Living in Nursing Homes, and

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