Do you have seven minutes to change your life? Really. This is one of the more powerful and important videos I’ve seen in a long time. It’s about happiness. In particular, it’s about the connection between gratitude and happiness. As it turns out, expressing gratitude is one of the most effective ways to increase happiness. Which is what makes this video powerful – not the idea itself, which we’ve explored in other places on this blog – but because the good folks at Soul Pancake actually took research about the connection between expressing gratitude and levels of happiness and replicated the experiment and filmed it for us to...
Faith Beyond Belief
posted by DJL
This is one of the most moving video’s I’ve seen in recent months. Like Wright’s Law, it’s moving because it tells the truth: it tells the truth about how hard life can be; it tells the truth about how important faith is; it tells the truth about the power of love. Here’s the short...
What Does Love Look Like to You?
posted by DJL
Since stumbling upon Kid President’s pep talk last week, I’ve become a huge fan of Soul Pancake. I can’t quite figure out what it is, who they are, or what they’re up to, but I like their stuff nevertheless. So take a look at this short flick they put together on “What does Love look like to YOU?” They sent out this question to the folks following their work and asked them — anyone — to send short video answers. Then they put a number of them together, added a little background music, and voila. The result, I think, is powerful. Anyone up for putting together “What does Faith look like to YOU?” Or maybe, “What...
Need Encouragement?
posted by DJL
Yes, this is an “inspirational video.” You can find them anywhere, I know. And some of them are just downright kitschy. I know that, too. But it was still just what I needed today. For all kinds of reasons – some personal, some probably shared by you. I guess it just feels like...