The Best Articles on Feeling Better

Our emotions are just as important as our thoughts when it comes to living better. How you feel can drive what you do much more than logic and reason. I’ve written quite a few articles on managing your emotions, overcoming frustration and finding happiness over the years, here are some of the best.

The 5 Best Articles on Managing Emotions, Overcoming Stress and Finding Happiness

The Critical 7 Rules to Understand People – Seven rules to understand other people and yourself.
Some Things That Have Helped Me Worry Less – Some strategies I’ve used to battle anxiety and stress.
How to Stop Feeling Like an Impostor – Feel like a fraud? Here’s how to overcome your own insecurities.
Book Review: The Wisdom of Insecurity – Alan Watts’ unconventional approach to life, with my own thoughts.
Emotional Mastery – A six-part series on how to manage your emotions to perform and feel better.

Reducing Stress and Anxiety




How to Worry Less What Other People Think of You
How to Push Past Your Analysis Paralysis
Richard Feynman on Self-Doubt and Meeting Others’ Expectations
Manageable Awfulness and How to Let Bad Things Happen
Fear of Loss
How I’m Learning to Stop Worrying
How to Be Relaxed, Even When You’re Busy

Relationships and Other People




Haters are Good: Why You Need Your Critics
How to Be Nice (Without Being a Pushover)
How to Learn Social Skills
Why You Need Mentors (And Why You Don’t Have Them Yet)
The Empathy Problem
Could You Sell Who You Are in 30 Seconds?
Do You Need Friends That Think Like You?
The Importance of Being Likeable
Loneliness and the Unconventional Life
The Reason People are Unhappy in Relationships
How to Meet Interesting People
How to Escape the Toxic Friends Holding You Back
In Praise of Solitude
How to Be More Social
How to Develop a Thicker Skin
How to Figure Out What People Want
Better Conversations: Collecting Life Stories
Do You Need Other People to Support You?

Happiness




The Path to Happiness: Do What You Love, Not What You Like
Seven Biographies You Should Read to Live a Better, Richer and Happier Life
The Problem of Happiness – Why is it so hard to chase after?
Happily Ever After – Are we really looking for a happy ending?
Does Dreaming Smaller Result in Living Happier?
Should You Strive to Live Happily or Live Good?
Mental Aikido: The Necessity of Unhappiness is the Ideal Life
Will Reaching the Ideal Life Make You Any Happier?
It’s Okay to Be Unhappy
You’re Allowed to Be Happy and Ambitious at the Same Time
The Zen of Folding Laundry and Other Thoughts on Happiness
Get Happy: Making Decisions for Emotional Quality

Motivation




You Probably Have Too Much Motivation
Itchy Chair Motivation
How to Stay Motivated in Long Projects
Gumption
Finding Motivation for Improbable Goals
The Key to Motivation: Forget Goals, Focus on Projects
9 Ideas to Overcome Discouragement
Avoiding Motivation Burnout

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