Roman Russo's Blog, page 29
November 20, 2021
Can We Improve Job Satisfaction Without Changing Our Career?
Once, I was talking to a young barista who after several years of working in the same cafe was no longer happy serving corporate world customers with whom she could not relate. At this point, I proposed to her to do the same job, but at a different cafe, perhaps catering to a younger and …
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November 13, 2021
Employee Satisfaction vs Corporate Growth: Is it Not Possible to Have Both?
Once, I was talking to a life coach who made a presentation to a company about happiness. The result of their training was a lot of happy employees ready to quit their “dead end job” looking to take a new step in their lives by finding jobs which were more in line with their passions. …
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November 6, 2021
Trouble in Paradise: When Everyone is Suffering and All Suffering is Relative
Today, I woke up feeling like there is trouble in paradise. Everything starts with something small. I see someone one liking my hobby blog Zero To Do Hero (play of words Zero to Hero, with added To Do, like?) and after checking their blog I find that this person is also a photographer blogger with …
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October 31, 2021
How Much Money is Enough For You to Lead a Happy Life?
An excellent exercise that everyone should do at some point in their lives is to calculate how much money is enough to feel happy and lead a prosperous existence. This exercise is important because often we feel like we don’t have enough money and therefore we are not good enough. Altogether, this leads to a …
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October 24, 2021
What is Happiness? Happiness Definition & Its Six Components
Happiness is a universal pursuit, but many people find happiness to be elusive. For one reason or another, it’s just hard to feel happy and maintain this feeling in the long-term. Some people believe that this is because different people have different happiness definitions. It’s almost as if all 7.9 billion of us have a …
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October 17, 2021
Optimal Happiness is Now Available for Pre-Order on Audibles
Any Audible lovers here? I know I am. This is why I am so excited to announce that Optimal Happiness is now available on Audible as an audiobook on pre-order! Here is the link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Optimal-Ha... Official release date is 1st of November 2021, so not too much waiting time :) This audiobook is narrated by …
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October 9, 2021
Vegetarian Diet is Linked to Depression: New Study Concludes
There is a link between a vegetarian diet and a range of psychological disorders, like anxiety and depression, a new study concludes with defining certainty. But why are vegetarians so depressed? If we are vegetarian (or God forbids vegan), does this mean that we are more susceptible to depression? Is there more to this story? …
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October 2, 2021
How to be Alone and Happy?
For me, the whole question of how to be alone and happy is incorrectly framed from the start, as in a perfect world we would never be alone in the first place. Our psychological default is to have people around us, and studies repeatedly show a correlation between social isolation and unhappiness. Still, despite technological …
September 26, 2021
Most Common Objection to Optimal Happiness
By far, one of the most common objections to Optimal Happiness states something among these lines: “How will Optimal Happiness help starving children in Africa? or “How will Optimal Happiness help someone in the middle of a war zone, such as in the current conflict between Palestine and Israel?” This person usually continues by saying …
September 19, 2021
Example of How Optimal Happiness Helped Steve
People often ask me how Optimal Happiness can help different people to reach their happiest potential and if I have some examples of clients I worked with in the past for whom this model worked. Today, I would like to talk about one of such cases related to a man (let’s call him Steve) who …
