#Happiness

While society often assumes that finding a romantic partner is the ultimate key to happiness, tracking relationship changes over time reveals a distinctly different reality.…

The Day I Realized I Was Living on Autopilot I didn’t realize it was happening because nothing seemed seriously was wrong. I wasn’t having a breakdown. I wasn’t crying every night. I wasn’t …

What Grows Depends On What You Nurture It is one of life’s quietest truths, and one of its most powerful. What we nurture with our thoughts, what we water with our attention, what we strengthen …

7 Disturbing Psychological Facts About Happiness That Nobody Warns You About Most people spend their entire lives chasing happiness — only to end up more miserable than when they started. Science …

I have habits that hinder me. For me, that is getting in my own head, letting people go, and asking for help.

I listened to your recent conversation with Arthur C. Brooks and found myself struggling with his core premise. His framing of happiness seems to reduce it to something like a biological or behavioural optimisation problem, which feels quite far from how…

Here’s the recipe for life happiness. Take a plane to Italy (or some other cool country). One cup of your favourite people (in my case my family) Two tablespoons of a great amazing view Three liter of your favourite drink (in my case Italian Amarone wine)…

US happiness fell 10-15 points across every age, income, and ideology group after 2020. Consumer sentiment hit a 70-year low.

Stop being an emotional trash bin. Learn 3 simple rules to protect your energy, stop caring about others' opinions, and find your inner peace.

Happiness Through Subtraction is still an effective strategy, but you need to be aware of the positives you may be removing in the process. Read more → The post Happiness Through Addition appeared first on Mad Fientist.

New research has questioned the ubiquitous idea that money doesn’t make you happier once you reach $75,000. The real secret is in how you spend, not how much you make.

This is one of the most enjoyable segments I include every October in the newsletter, as I always get email responses back that people found hundreds or...

I published a podcast episode yesterday and my guest was none other than Tim Ferriss.

In the happiest countries, enlightened leaders did not focus on economic development alone. That created an upward spiral in well-being.…Read More

New Wharton research finds that abundantly happy people are perceived as innocent and unsophisticated, which makes them more vulnerable to deception.…Read More

What’s making Americans so anxious? Author Ruth Whippman says it’s the notion that happiness must be pursued above all else. …Read More

Are you happy? Could you be happier? Gretchen Rubin was already "pretty happy" when she asked herself these very questions. In search of the answers, she started her own pursuit of happiness, which eventually became a New York Times bestseller titled, The…

The United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron plans to create a national well-being index. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has formed a team that includes two Nobel Prize-winning economists to come up with a system for measuring the nation's…

What exactly is the relationship between money and happiness? It's a difficult question to pin down, experts say. While more money may make us happier, other considerations -- such as whether you live in an economically advanced country and how you think…