Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Workplace harassment

    Workers receiving adverse employment opportunities because of their identity group’s characterisitics.  

  • Workplace discrimination

    Hostile behaviors directed toward workers by other employees because of the target persons identity group characteristics.  

  • Whole clear message

    A form of clean communication that involves four elements: the communicator’s observations, thoughts, feelings, and needs.  

  • Well-being theory

    Seligman’s theory that well-being consists of positive emotions, engagement, meaning, positive relationships, and accomplishment.  

  • Weight set point model

    A model that maintains that weight loss is difficult to maintain because the body’s internal regulating mechanisms drive the body’s weight back to its natural predetermined level.  

  • Vital exhaustion

    A concept related to burnout that involves a low energy state, sleep disturbances, extreme fatigue, irritability, and feelings of demoralization.  

  • Virtue theory

    Aristotle’s approach that happiness is not a goal to pursue but rather a by-product of living the virtuous life.  

  • Vipassana meditation

    A form of mindfulness meditation based on Buddhist practice.  

  • Vigorous activity

    Bodily movement such as running that produces a sustained heart rate of at least 70% of one’s maximum capacity.  

  • Vigor

    Represents the positive pole on a burnout continuum in Shirom’s model of burnout characterized by emotional, physical, and cognitive vibrancy.  

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