Lifestyle
Alongside taking care of other people and the planet, make sure you take good care of yourself. The Lifestyle section at the Optimist Daily has solutions for everyday wellbeing on topics like food, beauty, fashion, and the latest trends. Curious about caring for houseplants, eating plant-based, or parenting tips? It’s all in there.
Björk’s latest album is a meditation on optimism
“If optimism ever was like an emergency, it’s now.” Following the 2016 election of Donald Trump, the iconic Icelandic artist Björk felt determined to create an album dedicated to optimism. Whereas her last album was rather dark, this atmospheric collection of songs is a meditation on hope. Read More...
Can listening to music make you a better person?
With music becoming more and more accessible for people, the average amount of time we spend listening to music each week has increased an average of five and a half hours in just the last year. Our lives are a bit more rhythmic these days, but does this have an effect on the way we go about our Read More...
Cell massages to cryotherapy: inside the “biohacking” gym of the future
Walk past the enclosed single-person metal pods lining the entrance to Bulletproof Labs, the new health and fitness center from Bulletproof founder Dave Asprey, and the first thing you’ll likely notice is the group of people, seated in Read More...
The quietest places on Earth
From remote forests to maddening silent rooms and the world's least noise-polluted city, here are 15 of the best places for a quiet escape. Described as “where sound goes to die”, this Microsoft research lab in the city of Redmond, Read More...
Solving Darwin’s puzzle of kindness: Does it make sense to be nice?
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, based as it is on a competitive process of natural selection Read More...
To promote happiness, choose time over money
If you feel like there are too many things to do today and not enough time to do them, you are not alone. Most Americans feel pressed for Read More...
Why you should write three pages of garbage every morning
Every morning—just about—I write three pages, stream-of-consciousness, longhand in a notebook. I sit down, I write for three pages, I Read More...
‘It is better to buy than rent and that has nothing to do with money’
In the wake of the 2008-2010 Great Recession, a central policy question remains: If homeownership is not guaranteed to create wealth, are there other reasons for promoting it? Is there a rationale for supporting and extending homeownership beyond whatever financial benefits it may convey? These are Read More...
This new hotel for activists encourages community (and pampering)
Hotels have adopted plenty of popular trends in recent years–eco-friendly, “experiences,” heated toilet seats–but a new brand might be attempting the most ambitious one yet: Activism. The newly announced Eaton hotel and coworking space in Washington Read More...
Recovering from hurricane Maria: How this community is redefining resilience
When hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, an established community of more than 20 families was cut off from the world for several days. The deadly storm washed away the concrete bridge that connected the community with the rest of the town, leaving these families in complete isolation. Read More...