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It's become almost cliched these days to note that wealth will not lead to happiness...

22 April, 2008

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. - Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer This wonderful quote hardly needs a happiness or positive psychology interpretation but how about...

22 April, 2008

More lessons from my iPod (April 20) A few weeks ago I wrote about a lesson I"d learned from playing with my iPod and that lesson, discovered via the wonders of what the people at Apple call 'shuffle mode", was that we could all benefit from...

21 April, 2008

According to Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., Positive Psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association, the quest for happiness has existed since the time of Aristotle. What makes the journey towards understanding and obtaining happiness in 2008 different from the journey humans have taken...

21 April, 2008

At The Happiness Institute we spend much of our time delivering our "Happiness @ Work" programs. Within these we (obviously) focus on enhancing happiness in the workplace and as part of this we believe that happiness at work is closely associated with helping people...

21 April, 2008

Older folk are happier Monday, 21 April 2008 SmartCompany New research has found that older people tend to be the happiest people in a population, defying the stereotype of the grumpy old man or woman. Wired reports that University of Chicago researchers interviewed almost 30,000 people of...

21 April, 2008

In collaboration with one of Australia's newest, but leading online career network sites, JobX, we've developed a free, online Happiness Test in which you can assess your level of happiness within minutes. You can also re-test yourself at regular intervals to see how you're...

18 April, 2008

Happiness: "I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affect this. From the very core of our being, we simply...

18 April, 2008

I recently posted a link to an article from the New York Times on the link between economics and happiness. Well, there's now a part II; to read more about the interesting connections between happiness and wealth - click here...

18 April, 2008

Psychology has traditionally targeted mental illness, but Psychology professor Martin Seligman is trying to turn this focus to "mental wellness." (which includes, among a range of other positive emotions, happiness) Seligman, who is considered the father of positive psychology and serves as the director of Penn...

18 April, 2008