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...study has found that money does indeed bring happiness??spending money on other people, that is. Authored by Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn ’99, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, the report used a combination of real-life and laboratory data to conclude that people who give money to others—no matter how little—are happier than people who do not. “We were interested in studying happiness by seeing people’s actions rather than their circumstances...
...Author of “Stumbling on Happiness?...
...hold dear. They are cheap and fleeting, “words words words” as Hamlet says. Or Nietzsche: “That for which we find words is already dead in our hearts.” Today, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?? sounds ugly to me in comparison to the eternal battlecry of the French Republic: “Liberté egalité fraternité.” The words themselves mean nothing, are even oxymoronic. But the passion with which they are spoken, the ubiquity with which they are inscribed...
...example, time-ins—thought-provoking questions meant to challenge a person’s attitudes and behaviors toward happiness??are interspersed with explanations of positive psychology. These mini-exercises force the reader to internalize Ben-Shahar’s ideas and evaluate his own approach to happiness. Additional exercises are listed at the end of each chapter, further reinforcing the lessons. At the end of a chapter entitled "The Ultimate Currency," the reader is asked to complete a series of sentences that begin with phrases such as "To bring five percent more happiness into my life?...
...using a variety of simple metaphors, Ben-Shahar does just that, clearly illustrating the theories of happiness in understandable and memorable terms. For example, he compares the four archetypal attitudes toward happiness??hedonism, rat racing, nihilism and the ideal pursuit of happiness??to different types of hamburgers, demonstrating the pros and cons of each method...