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If you want to be happy at work, you may think you should follow your passion. But research shows that there is better advice. You can experience workplace happiness by building a career you love in these three key ways:

Enjoy the inaugural issue of our center's newsletter, "Thriving Together":

Mindful leadership expert and CWB Senior Fellow Laurie Cameron discusses her new well-being book "The Mindful Day" at Mason's Fall for the Book festival on October 10. How the book is helping people integrate mindfulness into their busy daily lives:

Are there different types of subjective well-being (how people think and feel about their lives)? CWB Senior Scholar James Maddux explores that question:

What does curiosity look like in action? A team of researchers led by our center’s Senior Scientist Dr. Todd Kashdan investigated curiosity and found evidence for five distinct factors involved in being curious:

Social change leader Billy Shore, executive chairman of the organizations Share Our Strength and No Kid Hungry, will discuss “What Does it Take to Achieve the Impossible?” at Mason’s Fall for the Book Festival on Thursday, October 11, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in George’s restaurant:

People need down time in order to function at our best, writes Positive Leadership program faculty member Dr. Beth Cabrera in her latest blog:

Mason educators represented our well-being university at the World Positive Education Accelerator Conference (WPEA) this summer. They met with more than 800 educators from around the world to plan strategies for empowering students to thrive:

CWB Senior Scholar Steve Gladis, who co-teaches our Positive Leadership program, has released the new book "Self-Leadership: Become the CEO of Your Own Career" to help people navigate career changes:

CWB Senior Scientist Dr. Olivia (Mandy) O'Neill's organizational culture research on the well-being impact of "companionate love" in the workplace has recently been featured on Inc.com: