Happynomics
You won’t find the word “happynomics” in the Oxford English Dictionary. At least, not yet.
Read the latest manifesto via the NYT.
I LOVE Netflix. I LOVE HBO. House of Cards, Luke Cage, Game of Thrones and Insecure are all brilliant television. So brilliant that its addictive. I can and have finished entire seasons of Daredevil over the course of a weekend. In fact, when I’m asked what I do for fun, I have on more than…
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved” George Sand One of the Happiness Habits is to build close relationships in which you can share your personal feelings and reveal your authentic self. Ellen Berscheid wrote that “relationships constitute the single most important factor responsible for the survival of homo sapiens”…
A revealing study on this topic came out recently on the NYT. This is something I have been wondering about for years. Why are rates of depression soaring among young people? Face to face human communication, as opposed to communication with pixels (not communication with pixies, you could get in bigger trouble with that), seem to…
More stunning evidence that mindfulness leads to changes in the brain: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11306250/ This study was reported in the New York Times on January 29: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/how-meditation-may-change-the-brain/?src=me&ref=general