Browsing Tag: Happiness

A Serving of Gratitude May Save the Day: “If you want to sleep more soundly, count blessings, not sheep,” Dr. Emmons advises in “Thanks!” his book on gratitude research.
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The Pursuit of Happiness: Why did couples go on having children even though the data clearly showed that parents are less happy than childless couples? Why did billionaires desperately seek more money even when there was nothing they wanted to do with it?
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Happiness linked to choice, control, power in new study: Having power over others and having choices in your own life share a critical foundation: control, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The paper finds that people are willing to trade one source of control for the other.
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Wandering Mind is a Sign of Unhappiness: More frequent mind-wanderers remain less happy than the rest, and the moral — at least for the short-term — seems to be: you stray, you pay.
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Secret To All Happiness And Success, Part 2: Good And Kind: Narayan Gupta discovers her friends secret. He explains to her how writing two simple things have given him everything in life. They have filled him up and made him feel like he wants to share. They have have made him a trust-worthy and wealthy person. They have made him popular and well liked. They have made him remember who he really is and how he wants to live life. What are the two things he wrote down? What is the secret to all happiness and success?; read more and listen

Secret To All Happiness And Success, Part 1: Jagjit's Mysterious Book: Once a woman visited her best friend Jagjit. Jagjit went to buy some food so they could eat together and she found herself in Jagjit's room. She saw an altar that had inspiring pictures on it. It also had dazzling and expensive jewels on it, "Wow!" She thought. In the center of the altar was a book that had the most exquisite and intricate art work. The title was written on gold and studded with diamonds. It said, "The Secret To All Happiness And Success". It was the most beautiful and expensive book she ever saw. She thought, "What could possibly be written in this book??!"; read more and listen

But Will It Make You Happy?: Mr. Belic says his documentary shows that “the one single trait that’s common among every single person who is happy is strong relationships.”
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The Pursuit of Happiness: Happiness is a good thing... it's just not the only thing.
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Estonia's Bank of Happiness: trading good deeds: “We call it a bank because we want to bring forth a new set of values”, says Tiina Urm, a 26-year-old who helped to think up the idea and is the closest thing that the Bank of Happiness has to a manager.
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