There’s a new research study out of the UK on what makes people happy, and it has some interesting results.
Happiness seems to be a top priority for the UK, as a lot of happiness research and experiments are conducted there. Good news for anyone living in the UK.
The researchers split more than 26,000 people up [...]
Archive for the 'Happiness' Category
The How of Happiness on 20/20
15Feb09There’s a video up on Youtube featuring Sonya Lyubomirsky on 20/20. She goes over some of the basics of happiness research and how it’s relevant to the average person’s life.
What’s interesting though is that the hosts profile twins who have very similar lifestyles but very different average happiness levels. Twins are used a lot in [...]
You Owe it to Others to be Happy
13Jan09You might think that your happiness begins and ends with you. If you thought that, you would probably also think that the happiness of others is fantastic, but has nothing to do with you.
But you would be wrong on both.
Human beings are, if nothing else, social animals. We interact with others constantly, we require it [...]
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In his newly released TED talk, Dr. Martin Seligman gives an excellent introduction to the field of Positive Psychology, which is a major part of what’s covered here at Improved Lives.
It’s from 2004, so it misses some of the latest advancements that have been made, but it also covers many of the more [...]
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Donald, over at Life Optimizer, has published a guest post I wrote for him called 4 Guidelines for Increasing Daily Happiness.
The post deals with how there are three categories of things that bring us happiness: our genetics, our circumstances, and our intentional activities
The post is all about how to maximize the happiness we get from [...]
Have you subscribed yet?There is a new study out that tracks the happiness levels of 52 countries over an average of 17 years.
The interesting thing about this study is that because it covers a substantial number of years and a substantial number of countries, it allows us to understand what factors are influencing happiness levels within these countries.
The [...]
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Back in May I wrote a post called Is Happiness Contagious? (which is, I think, one of the most fascinating posts on ImprovedLives) which was all about the research of Dr. Nicholas Christakis.
Dr. Christakis was trying to discover whether having obese people in your social network was more likely to make you obese too, [...]
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“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.” – Aristotle
Aristotle was exactly right, but it seems as if we haven’t really learned his lesson in the more than 2000 years since he was around.
Lets be clear, money is a token. Green paper [...]
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I always seem to be forgetting to do my personal growth exercises like Gratitude Journaling. (which you can read about here) I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten out of bed because I’ve forgotten yet again. But no more.
I was browsing through this article called The Cheat’s Guide to Happiness and it [...]
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Beautician! (scroll down to see the whole list)
I have to hand it to the UK, they’ve got a focus on happiness that I really wish we had over here in North America.
This was a study by City & Guilds, a UK outfit, that quizzed people from 20 different professions to come up with [...]
