Don’t Forget the Small Data

The small data has worth, too. Maybe even greater worth than the bigger, more voluminous kind.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthSeptember 4, 2014culture, education, literature, readingComment

What Fear Should You Face?

Looking away feels easier than facing a fear--even if conquering it could transform your life.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthSeptember 1, 2014business, culture, happiness, health, relationshipsComment

What’s Off Limits for Sorry?

When does it makes sense to call foul for feeling sorry?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 31, 2014culture, happinessComment

Crying Doesn't Work

Crying only makes about 1/3 of people feel better. So why do we laud it?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 29, 2014culture, happiness, relationshipsComment

Confidence Totems

We all have them: Little, perhaps mostly unnoticeable to others, confidence-boosting lucky charms.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 26, 2014business, culture, fashionComment

People Do Not Come into Your Life for a Reason

A real life doesn’t take the form of a neat narrative with a main character and extras superfluous other than their specific roles in the protagonist’s plot.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 24, 2014culture, friendshipComment

What Turning on the Radio Tells Us about Equality

You don't need cataclysmic events to show you the plight of blacks in America.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 23, 2014cultureComment

Connecting Friends

How do you connect your friends?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 21, 2014friendshipComment

Do Song Lyrics Influence Behavior?

How much does music really influence kids? Or does it?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 19, 2014cultureComment

Travel Souvenirs: What Do You Collect?

What do you collect when you travel?

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 17, 2014travel, vacationComment

Telling People How You Feel

Should you ever feel sorry for expressing your emotions?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 15, 2014happiness, healthComment

Taking Photos at Funerals

Why don't we take photos at funerals? Should we?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 12, 2014culture, family, relationshipsComment

When You Need Instant Happy: Six Quick Happiness Boosts

Six quick happiness boosters you can do right this second.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 11, 2014happinessComment

Places Lost

What places, when revisited, crush you with nostalgia?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 9, 2014happiness, travelComment

Vacation Guidance—Pretty Please

Veering from the norm for this blog, I ask you readers to help me plan my next vacation. Ideas?

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 6, 2014happiness, health, travel, vacationComment

Valuing Females

Changing the conversation will help change the way we teach young women their value.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 4, 2014culture, happiness, health, womenComment

Things I Love: August 2014

Things I love this month, the café edition: Te House of Tea, Epicure Café, and Boomtown Coffee.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthAugust 2, 2014business, culture, relationships, writingComment

The Dangerous Cult of Personality

People back the rider, not the horse. Unfortunately.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 1, 2014business, culture, leadership, managementComment