Last week, we looked at pride as the powerful psychological boost that helps us keep going when it comes to making and breaking habits. And while pride is often seen as an undesirable trait, personal pride is a positive thing for incremental change.
But, let’s face it … pursuing personal growth could cause us to slip over to the dark side of pride. In other words, developing an excessively high opinion of ourselves and our importance.
The antidote to dangerous pride? Humility. In this week’s Further original, Jerod Morris shares how to keep pride and humility in healthy balance:
How to Get Your Pride and Humility Back in Balance
Have a very happy Thanksgiving if you’re in the US. Just don’t eat too much (what the hell, go ahead).
Keep going-
Brian Clark
Further
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Plant and Shoot
There’s a new diet fueling a slimmed-down NBA this season. Yes, it’s plant-based vegan and vegetarianism, and it seems to be working wonders.
The Secret (but Healthy!) Diet Powering Kyrie and the NBA
Nuts in the Head
Recently, a plethora of studies have pointed to the positive effects of nuts. The benefits range from better cardiovascular health to boosted memory and cognition.
Nuts strengthen your brain, EEG study shows
Truth Serum
A recent study from the University of Notre Dame found that when people gave up lying for 10 weeks, they felt less tense, more upbeat, and experienced fewer physical ailments like sore throats and headaches.
Honesty Can Make You Healthier
French Escape
The beachy headland west of Bordeaux forgoes glamour for the simpler things: surfing, fishermen’s cottages, and freshly shucked oysters.
A Guide to Cap Ferret, the Cape Cod of France
Design Your Job
A former lawyer explains how design methodology led her to try out life as a pastry chef before getting a master’s in psychology. Here are the five steps she used to discover her ideal work life.
I Used Design Thinking To Reinvent My Career — Here’s Why It Worked
Goal Grit
Research reveals that your mental toughness plays a more important role than anything else for achieving your goals in health, business, and life. That’s good news because you can’t do much about the genes you were born with, but you can do a lot to develop mental toughness.
The Science of Developing Mental Toughness in Health, Work, and Life
Analog Work
We’re crammed into less office space, computers have taken the place of typewriters, and even the phrase “desktop” itself means something different. These photos will inspire you to clear away your desktop clutter.
The Desks Of Top Creatives Prove That Offline Workspaces Still Matter
Survival of the Kindest
The benefits gained from receiving kindness are intuitively obvious. But the motivations for engaging in kindness are much less so. In fact, the very existence of kindness and altruism seems to contradict Darwin’s theory of evolution.
From an Evolutionary Perspective, Does it Make Sense to be Nice?
A Walk in Their Shoes
In popular media and research studies alike, the consequences of a lack of empathy tend to be emphasized. This article takes the opposite approach, and provides tips for improving your existing empathy skills in ways that improve your life.
The Persistent Illusion
Everything we take for granted as reality is, in fact, an illusion of sorts. There may be an objective component to what we see, but much of that objectivity is limited. Further yet, a lot of it is clouded by our subjective judgments.
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