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Harvard Just Released Its Epic Study On What Men Need To Live A Happy Life
‘In 1938 Harvard University began following 268 male undergraduate students and kicked off the longest-running longitudinal studies of human development in history. The study’s goal was to determine as best as possible what factors contribute most strongly to human flourishing.
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Google is right: We work better when we're happy
New research confirms what Google already knows—greater employee happiness results in higher productivity without sacrificing quality. Economists carried out a number of experiments to test the idea that happy employees work harder. In the laboratory, they found happiness made people about 12 percent more productive.
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Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment
When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the surprising results: We're often happiest when we're lost in the moment. And the flip side: The more our mind wanders, the less happy we can be. (Filmed at TEDxCambridge.)
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Pope Francis issues top 10 tips for happiness – including don’t try to convert other people
Turn off the TV, calm down and stop trying to convert people to your religion. These are among the top 10 pieces of advice issued by Pope Francis this week as part of his recipe for a happy, more fulfilled life.
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'Mood-tracking' devices are the new wave in wearables
We’ve heard of smart jewelry. We’ve heard of fitness trackers. We’ve even heard about sexual fitness trackers. But the latest trend in wearable technology won’t track your caloric intake, your fitness regimen, or even how long you last in bed. Instead we're moving on to wearables that track how happy or sad you are.
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Unpredictable Work Schedules Are a Big Problem For American Workers
On Monday, New York's attorney general announced that he had sent letters to 13 major retailers inquiring about their use of "on-call scheduling," which can make workers responsible for showing up at a moment's notice, or leave them without a shift just as quickly. "Such practices take a toll on workers and prevent employees from securing childcare or pursuing other job and educational opportunities...
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Optimistic People All Have One Thing In Common: They're Always Late
Chronically late people aren't hopeless, they're hopeful.
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This Obvious Happiness Strategy Really Does Work, Study Finds
Trying too hard to be happy can backfire, but study reveals a strategy that works.
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This U.K. Company Offered Its Employees Unlimited Vacation Time. It Was a Total Failure.
Sir Richard Branson may be the most high-profile advocate of unlimited vacation days, but he's far from the only entrepreneur entranced by the idea. His announcement last fall of the new policy for some employees at Virgin set off a flurry of press coverage of other firms that were succeeding with similar policies (as well as a few pieces offering skeptical pushback).
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'How happy is your London postcode?'
Find out today by visiting The Happy Forecast - an interactive experience mapping the social wellbeing of all 119 London postcodes.
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Hey, Internet: Stop Trying To Inspire Me
Jamie Varon's ironically inspiring write-up about those who fake happiness and positivity. "I’m tired of people trying to inspire me to have a better, bigger, happier life. Let me exist. Let me fumble. Let me find the patch of light in the long tunnel of darkness."
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20 Chances to Change Your Happiness Meter - Tips for a Happy life
So many people are struggling to find happiness in their life. What's ironic about it all, is that finding happiness can be so simple!
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Happiness
We’ve asked people around the world “what makes you happy” and we’ve illustrated over 7,000 submissions so far (and still going strong!).
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The Science Of Why You Should Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things
You don't have infinite money. Spend it on stuff that research says makes you happy.
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These are the happiest countries in the world.
1. Switzerland 2. Iceland 3. Denmark
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The Mother of All Questions
I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of people was whether Woolf should have had children. By Rebecca Solnit.
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This Christmas, Tune It All Out
Before I had kids, I despised Christmas. I thought the holiday was symbolic of everything that was fake, exploitative and wasteful about our culture. And nothing symbolized our population's sheep-like inability to think for itself than millions of economically strained people stampeding into debt because Television tells them they will offend Christ if they don't buy thousands of dollars of worthless crap.
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Talking Heads - Mr. Jones
Always on my "cleaning the house" playlist.
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Magnetic mind control works in live animals, makes mice happy
Using a magnet, researchers remotely control brain circuitry, alter behavior. By Beth Mole.
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Smart people are happier spending less time with friends
While the average person is happier with a large friend circle, new research reveals those with higher IQs are better off with a small one.
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