future Tag

Along with millions of other people around the world I recently watched this amazing You Tube video - CHECK IT OUT HERE Now althogh this does not, directly, have anything to do with happiness or positive psychology I couldn't help but watch it and think...

24 March, 2011

Scientists have explained why humans are notoriously bad at predicting their future happiness. Jordi Quoidbach from the University of Liege, Belgium, suggested that part of the reason for these mispredictions lies in failing to recognize the key role played by one's own personality when determining...

14 January, 2011

As I've written about before, happiness comes at least partly from living in the moment (see this previous blog posting). But as long as we do it right, happiness also comes from positive reminiscing and future planning (especially when the planning involes setting and working towards...

14 November, 2010