Contentedness
As regular readers will know I read and think (and subsequently write) a great deal about happiness. Quite often I’ve discussed the word happiness with… Læs mere »Contentedness
As regular readers will know I read and think (and subsequently write) a great deal about happiness. Quite often I’ve discussed the word happiness with… Læs mere »Contentedness
In the car today, my youngest son (8) demanded an explanation of the word “depression”. Not sure where he’d picked it up – maybe he… Læs mere »Brain waves
The last few weeks have taken their toll on my usually sanguine disposition. Some private matters weigh heavily on my mind and are hard to… Læs mere »Mood regulation
It will never cease to amaze me how many fantastic people have spoken at the TED conferences over the years. I’ve seen quite a lot… Læs mere »Wonders of the world
Together with a lot of other Twitterers, I’ve enjoyed this article in the New York Times. It’s written by the clearly renowned writer Pico Iyer,… Læs mere »Is less always more or only sometimes?
Today’s TED talk is about happiness. It’s with Nancy Etcoff, an evolutionary psychologist. It’s 20 minutes. She has some interesting points, e.g. that a successful… Læs mere »Happiness again
After using new Netvibes tools to arrange all the blogs I follow into neat groups, easy to sort through, I’ve hardly looked at them. The… Læs mere »Something to be thankful for? (and Aristotle for kids)
Last post in a while. We’re off on family holiday in Portugal tomorrow morning and I’m not bringing my ailing Mac-baby. It will rest in… Læs mere »Holiday, corruption, drug resistance, sleep & happiness – in that order
New glasses this morning. Ah, revelation! My 15″ Mac-baby now looks like it’s 17″. Nice. Have been constructing a Netvibes site for a paper I’m… Læs mere »All about being organised & turning the lights out
Had nice Mother’s Day with flowers – hand-picked at real florist by young son – and womenly presents. It was an incredibly beautiful day, so… Læs mere »What makes you happy? I know and you don't…
It’s been a very long time since I reported from Gretchen’s Happiness blog. I’m still following it, but she’s such a prolific writer that I… Læs mere »Suspicion meets the purveyor of random kindness
On Gretchen’s Happiness blog there’s a post about how to deal with criticism. Inspired by Gretchen’s own honesty about how not-so-good she is at dealing… Læs mere »Dealing with criticism & what makes us happy
Here’s a very happy story from the real world: When we were on our holiday on the south coast we spent a day in Portsmouth… Læs mere »There’s still hope!
A friend of mine sent me this very funny episode of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. You won’t be surprised to hear that his… Læs mere »Ms. Palin revisited and other odds and ends
Slate, New York Times, The American Prospect, Megan McArdle and a lot of sites that they’re linking to discuss the Obama speech. They seem to… Læs mere »A little Obama and a lot of other stuff
This picture of a very impressive hydrangea at Nyman’s in East Sussex has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of this post. I just… Læs mere »An evening traversing the World Wide Web
From Marginal Revolution this about Icelanders being the happiest people on earth. From the New Yorker a bone-chilling recount of Nixon’s presidency and why that… Læs mere »Link day
or is it? I’ve always believed firmly in the so-called Easterlin paradox (although never really knowing what it was called). It’s an economic term named… Læs mere »A basic belief shattered…