14/05/2020 • 5 min read
How to not be stuck in victimhood
by Haworth, Inc.
Hardwired into each of us are behaviors that help leverage the part of the brain where resiliency, innovation, and human connection (even remotely) most effectively take place.
“They're correlated with physical health, emotional health, and particularly helpful in a time of stress,” explains Greg Hicks, co-founder of FosterHicks, speaker, and co-author of the bestseller How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People.
Hicks’ decades of research with longtime collaborator Rick Foster offer insight into how we can navigate this pandemic that has turned our lives upside down. During Haworth Connect, a series that engages inspiring speakers on a range of topics, Hicks described nine behaviors that increase our resilience and happiness.
The point behind the whole model is that we can't choose our circumstances, but we can choose our attitude, behaviors, reactions, and intention.