This Is Your Brain On Scarcity

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October 18, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace When you're very lonely, or when you're hungry, or when you're poor, a large portion of the day is spent entertaining thoughts related to the source of your scarcity. - Eldar Shafir - This Is Your Brain On Scarcity Scientists have long recognized that poverty can aggravate health problems. Now they're also beginning to understand that the stress of too little income actually changes the way people think. Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir says that's normal for someone who's not making ends meet. He studies the brain on scarcity. He says it doesn't matter what kind of scarcity you're dealing with. When humans don't have enough of something, that fact dominates our consciousness. { read more } Be The Change Notice how often your thoughts turn to making ends meet, and gift someone this week who "doesn't have enough." COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The One Thing They Carried With Them The Difference Between Listening & Hearing On Navigating Stuckness Building A Regret Free Life 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children Because I'm Happy DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,023 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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The Extinction of Quiet

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October 17, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Listen to the joy in your heart and look at how much peace you have brought into the world before you. - Francesca (5 years old) - The Extinction of Quiet Noise pollution is linked to health problems and some argue it interferes with our natural connection to the earth. As the world's quiet places disappear, are we forgetting how to listen? In 1989, "acoustic ecologist" Gordon Hempton received a grant to document and record the natural sounds of Washington state. He identified 21 wilderness places to record -- sites unsullied by the sounds of traffic, aviation, construction, and other man-made noise. Twenty-five years later, only three of those sites remain muted. This poignant article shares more. { read more } Be The Change Sit quietly in your heart and mind and listen to the person in front of you today. Let them know that you are listening. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World The Beautiful Fragility of Language On Navigating Stuckness 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 149,994 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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6 Principles For Changing The World -- Seriously.

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October 16, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. - Niels Bohr - 6 Principles For Changing The World -- Seriously. "The solution revolution -- the convergence of money and meaning, problem solvers and 'patient' capital, governments and citizen (and commercial) changemakers -- is underway. But while it flourishes in some parts of the world, other regions are still sitting on the sidelines." Want to know what you can do to accelerate the solution economy? Read on for six world changing strategies from William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan. { read more } Be The Change What strategy recommended by William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan can you try implementing today? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The One Thing They Carried With Them The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Science of Love The Difference Between Listening & Hearing Relationships Are More Important than Ambition Building A Regret Free Life A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 149,963 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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The Pollination Project: Gifting A $1000 A Day

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October 15, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson - The Pollination Project: Gifting A $1000 A Day A 13-year-old collects items for animal shelters. An 88-year-old offers up land to community agriculture. A young man trains prisoners in nonviolence. For Ari Nessel, each story is just another day along his journey in giving. After making a fortune in Dallas real estate, Ari wanted to give back. Yet he noticed that modern-day philanthropy tends to hold a disconnect between the funders and those who are doing the work. So he decided to seed projects rather than fund them, and has embarked on an experiment to give away $1,000 a day, every day, for the rest of his life. "My experience is that transformation happens on the fringes and in the micro areas and the individuals," he explains. "It doesn't happen on a large scale, it happens through all these people coming together in communities." Learn how the seeds of The Pollination Project continue to blossom. { read more } Be The Change Read more stories of grantees that have been seeded and encouraged by the generosity of the Pollination Project. Perhaps you might be inspired to submit your own idea! { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Science of Love 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People What School Doesn't Teach You: How To Learn Ladder to the Pleiades Because I'm Happy DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 149,942 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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