Category: Positive psychology
Web MD has an article called Strategies for Happiness: 7 Steps to Becoming a Happier Person By Tom Valeo. Reviewed by Cynthia Dennison Haines, MD. Here’s a quick summary …
Lesson: Some people are born happier than others Is happiness genetic? Partly, yes. Twin studies suggest that genes could explain 38% (1) to 44-52% (2) of happiness variance. Other …
Lesson: Money changes everything – except happiness Strategy 8 highlighted the small contribution of external life conditions to happiness, and Strategy 9 showed that changes to these conditions only …
Lesson: We adapt quickly to the good and the bad We saw in Strategy 8 that, outside extreme stress or deprivation, circumstances add little to happiness. But what about …
Lesson: Externals don’t have a big impact on happiness You might think the happiest people are the ones with great life conditions – money, health, youth and a good …
Lesson: Happiness isn’t the opposite of depression Before the growth of positive psychology, psychologists were mainly concerned with problems. Research focused on understanding what caused difficulties like depression, and …
In yesterday’s Guardian, Rebecca Hardy looked at a topic very close to this happiness strategist’s heart: although people are ‘popping happy pills like Smarties’, the accumulating mass of scientific …
Lesson: A review of happiness perks By now you probably need no more convincing that being happy is a good thing. We’ve seen how happiness supports your health, how …
Lesson: Happiness makes you – well, nicer Strategy 4 looked at the range of benefits associated with happiness. But the perks aren’t just for you. The 293-study meta-analysis from …
Lesson: Happy people enjoy all kinds of success You might be surprised by the sheer breadth of benefits associated with happiness. One study performed a meta-analysis of 293 separate …