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Tag: Happiness

Conversations of substance require acceptance of humanness

Fre­quent and sub­stan­tial con­ver­sa­tions with oth­ers cre­ates a sense of well-being, accord­ing to a psy­chol­ogy study reported in Sci­ence Daily this morn­ing. Greater well-being was related to spend­ing less time alone and more time talk­ing to oth­ers: The hap­pi­est par­tic­i­pants spent 25% less time alone and 70% more time talk­ing than the unhap­pi­est par­tic­i­pants. In […]

Is only our happiness at risk? Or do we have moral hazard as a nation?

The Amer­i­can promise is Life, Lib­erty & the Pur­suit of Hap­pi­ness. Despite the eco­nomic and social chal­lenges we face, our national cri­sis is dif­fer­ent today than in the 1930’s, says Mor­gan Meis of The Smart Set. Our angst is around our abil­ity to pur­sue hap­pi­ness as blithely as we did dur­ing the 1990’s.  The past […]