What you say and how you treat other people can affect their happiness. Likewise, what you hear and how other people handle you can affect your happiness.
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The critical ratio is 3+ to 1-, approximately, to remain at status quo. This means that it takes 3 positive expressions or interactions to offset 1 negative expression or interaction.
In his research on marriages, John Gottman was able to predict the success or failure of marriages with over 90% accuracy and the ratio of positive expressions over negative expressions was a key predictor.
Based on his mathematical modeling of corporate teamwork, Marcial Losada derived 2.9013 as the critical ratio for success in the team's performance with an ideal ratio of 6.
Barbara Fredrickson, from her research of college students, has found that students with a positivity ratio higher than 3 have high mental and social health.
The war against negative experiences wages on. Do not allow the negative to rob you of your happiness or the happiness of others within your circle of influence.
Bear in mind the Losada Line, Losada ratio, Gottman ratio or positivity ratio. Stay above it and you will be happy or, at the least, you will not be unhappy.
Just as you wanna to be happy, show kindness to others, in turn, besides heeding the call of librarians to handle books with care and the urging of naturalists to be kind to animals.
Bibliography:
* www.happierhuman.com, "The Power of Positivity, In Moderation: The Losada Ratio"
* Shawn Achor, "The Happiness Advantage": page 61
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