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Forcing yourself to smile can actually make you miserable

Smiling may not always make you happier, and new research suggests that forcing yourself to smile repeatedly could actually make you feel worse. In a University of Florida study involving more than 1,100 participants, researchers discovered that while a single artificial smile can provide a small mood boost, repeatedly faking smiles can erase that benefit or even reverse it.

ScienceDaily · EN

Fatal Paradox

If you currently find yourself lacking the necessary motivation to do anything beyond staring at the wall, it is almost certainly because HATEBREED haven't released a new album in nearly six years. Quite what we all did before Jamey Jasta's crew began to spread their unwavering gospel of positivity...

Blabbermouth · EN

Stop trying to find yourself

Philosopher Joe Folley is skeptical that there’s a core self down there to find. In this Big Think Conversation with Jonny Thomson, he makes the case for a self that gets built rather than excavated — and argues that the attention it takes to build one has been quietly thinned down into something you spend, trade, and optimize. Then: why nearly everyone reads the wrong Camus book, and why Camus himself seems to have thought his most famous philosophy was only half finished. Joe Folley holds an undergraduate degree and a master’s in philosophy from Cambridge and is the creator of the YouTube ch

Big Think · EN