As we suspected, you don’t need 500 friends on facebook…
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/reading-writing-rithmetic-and-relationships/?hp
Happiness and Creativity
History is replete with troubled geniuses. What about the happy geniuses? Perhaps they didn’t smash enough furniture to make news. According to new studies, you don’t have to get depressed to get creative. Quite the opposite.
Read about the new study reported in the NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/science/07brain.html?_r=1&hpw
Britain to Measure Happiness
Happiness is difficult to measure. And yet the British government is going to try.
Read about it in the New York Times: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/britain-to-measure-happiness/?hp
Recent research indicates that exercise might be the best antidote to stress:
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100927/LIFE04/9270323/Sweat-yourself-to-happiness
New study indicates that happiness trails off after income of 75k a year:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/07/129703291/new-study-high-incomes-don-t-bring-you-happiness
Money buys “satisfaction” but not “happiness.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/07/02/money-can-buy-satisfaction-if-not-happiness/
A Reuters story provides an intriguing twist on this debate:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2042446720080320
Does age buy happiness? Interesting new study:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/health/research/01happy.html?_r=1
It appears that several new studies show that while higher income produces “life satisfaction” it does not produce “affect balance.” In other words, people will say they are more satisifed if they have more money since, in our materialist culture, money is a sign of social status and a measure of self-worth. However, high income does not cause higher enjoyment or lower levels of depression. This suggests that the current view of many positive psychologists that happiness is synonymous with “Subjective Well being” (SWB) is problematic, insofar as SWB consists of distinguishable components that are not always highly correlated.
happiness is something like that we can attain out of our daily life. the person who love his works and makes required innovative improvement in his work and also in his day to day life’s actvities he doesn’t need to quest for happiness.