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.
Want to live in the Alps? This Swiss village will pay you to live there
As urbanization continues to push people towards the cities, towns and villages around the world are watching their populations dwindle. Villages like Albinen in Switzerland aren’t very happy to watch its young people leaving in great numbers, which is why they have come up with a radical way to Read More...
7 ways to turn around your bad day in a few minutes
We all know the feeling of being overwhelmed, annoyed, and feeling like everything is going wrong at work. If you find yourself longing for your commute home, take a few minutes and use these expert and science-backed strategies to change your Read More...
Nine ways to make Thanksgiving more mindful
In spite of the glossy ads making it look like Thanksgiving is one big joyful, harmonious day, for most people Thanksgiving can be Read More...
Blockchain could ‘change everything’ for real estate
“This changes everything.” That’s how Apple introduced the original iPhone in 2007. But it could just as easily apply here and now to the blockchain and its potential to enable transformative innovation in a variety of Read More...
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...