20 Oct 3 interesting happiness articles from around the world
Happiness is everywhere; check out these interesting news stories…
The Seattle Times writes about “How to infuse happiness into relationships”; the article begins thus…
How many truly happy, upbeat people do you know? On the other hand, how many disgruntled, unhappy people do you know?
What’s important to recognize is that you can personally influence a lot of people to be happier. What you say and do can affect how other people act and think.
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In Psychology Today, Andy Smith writes about “Designing Happiness”…
How do you design for happiness? A first step in tackling this question is to understand what happiness means. But herein lies the problem. Our understanding of what happiness is (and how to get it) is often misaligned with what really drives happiness. Indeed, research by Dan Gilbert and others show that we tend to go looking for happiness in a lot of the wrong places. If you disagree, you can check out the lead story on Entertainment Tonight on any given day. What people think will make them happy is not in fact what actually makes them happy.
Money, a successful career, a house with a white picket fence in the best neighborhood in town: these are things we consider the hallmarks of happiness. They are also the things we think will allow us to achieve happiness if only we could just acquire them. Studies show however that beyond a certain threshold, how much you make is relatively unrelated to your level of happiness. Becoming a multimillionare and having all the picket fences, fur sinks and electric dog polishers (thanks, Steve Martin) that money can buy isn’t going to bring you the contentment you think it will. If you do become as materially wealthy as you dream, you will have to confront the reality that those feelings of happiness you’ve been chasing aren’t any closer as a result of what’s going on in your bank account.
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And finally, a simple but always important message from The Daily Progress titled “Happiness lies, first of all, in health“…
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