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Feared and Loathed: The Teenage Boy Problem No One Wants to Touch

1 week ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan

Welcome to Provoked - your one-stop source for insights on Purpose, Happiness, Friendship, Romance, Narcissism, Creativity, Curiosity, and Mental Fortitude! Support the mission (here) and get benefits:Provoked is free, but it takes a lot of work. Please consider supporting Provoked by signing up as a free or paid subscriber. This issue is part of a series on outdated ideas such as:Let’s say it out loud: Teenage boys scare the shit out of people.
Stingy Compassion, Quiet Misery, and High Achievers

1 week ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan |Steve Stewart-Williams

Welcome to Provoked - your one-stop source for insights on Purpose, Happiness, Friendship, Romance, Narcissism, Creativity, Curiosity, and Mental Fortitude! Support the mission (here) and get benefits:Provoked is free, but it takes a lot of work. Please consider supporting Provoked by signing up as a free or paid subscriber. Let’s talk about the guy who has it all and feels like shit. You know the one. Big house. Nice car. Executive title. Lived-in leather briefcase.
The Invisible Challenges of Being Anxious

2 weeks ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan

Welcome to Provoked - your one-stop source for insights on Purpose, Happiness, Friendship, Romance, Narcissism, Creativity, Curiosity, and Mental Fortitude! Support the mission (here) and get benefits. Provoked is free, but it takes a lot of work. Please consider supporting my work by becoming a free or paid subscriber. We’ve entered a time where emotional dysregulation is almost a badge of honor.
Chasing the Peach Dragon: The Curse of the Peak Experience

2 weeks ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan

Welcome to Provoked - your one-stop source for insights on Purpose, Happiness, Friendship, Romance, Narcissism, Creativity, Curiosity, and Mental Fortitude! Support the mission (here) and get these benefits:You ever bite into a piece of fruit so absurdly perfect that it resets the bar for the rest of your life? That one impossible peach, the one so juicy and sweet it felt like a religious experience. The skin split just right, the nectar ran down your wrist, and for a moment, you thought, This.
Purpose vs. Happiness: The Showdown You Didn’t Know You Needed

2 weeks ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan

Welcome to Provoked - your one-stop source for insights on Purpose, Happiness, Friendship, Romance, Narcissism, Creativity, Curiosity, and Mental Fortitude! Support the mission (here) and get these benefits:With great collaborators, our team realized there has never been a solid direct scientific comparison between the two most widely studied dimensions of well-being: Purpose in Life and Happiness. We searched. Go ahead, try to see if we missed something out there.
Provoked with Dr. Todd Kashdan

3 weeks ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan

Get sophisticated content on well-being and human performance. Access new psychological angles on how to get the good stuff in life. By Provoked by Dr. Todd KashdanBy subscribing, I agree to Substack’s Terms of Use and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy“Todd Kashdan is a leading researcher in the field of positive psychology and a bold voice.
When You Are Blacklisted Because of A (Necessary) Act of Defiance

3 weeks ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan

Welcome to Provoked - your one-stop source for insights on Purpose, Happiness, Friendship, Romance, Narcissism, Creativity, Curiosity, and Mental Fortitude! Support the mission (here) and get these benefits:Let me set up a 59-minute videotaped ChangeMakers in Conversation video that went into some strange directions. Do you know that feeling when you look around and realize everyone’s nodding in agreement, except you? That awkward moment when you speak up, disrupt the calm, and then...
Honor: An Outdated Virtue

3 weeks ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan |Alison Fragale

Welcome to Provoked - your one-stop source for insights on Purpose, Happiness, Friendship, Romance, Narcissism, Creativity, Curiosity, and Mental Fortitude! Support the mission (here) and get these benefits:Honor is… sometimes just a nice word for ego. I will choose interesting conversations over ego. I will choose money over ego. Others lean the other direction. In some places, honor still rules with an iron grip—Texas, the American Southwest, vast stretches of Latin America.
An Alternative to Outrage and Complacency

4 weeks ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan

Welcome to Provoked - your one-stop source for insights on Purpose, Happiness, Friendship, Romance, Narcissism, Creativity, Curiosity, and Mental Fortitude! Support the mission (here) and get these benefits:I had the privilege of joining Dr. Emilia Elisabet Lahti, an esteemed educator and author/researcher known for her work on the Finnish concept of "sisu," on her podcast, Sisu Lab.
The Day I Almost Stepped on a Pigeon

1 month ago | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan

Welcome to Provoked - a one-stop source for insights on Purpose, Happiness, Friendship, Romance, Narcissism, Creativity, Curiosity, and Mental Fortitude! Support the mission (here):Most of life isn’t a highlight reel. It’s a collection of days that blend into each other, marked only by minor annoyances, fleeting amusements, and the occasional bizarre interaction that clings to your memory like gum on a sidewalk. Nobody asks, What did you accomplish on March 3rd, three years ago?