Happiness and a Long Life
Eating right, exercising regularly, being blessed with good genes: all are thought to promote good health and a long life. Now, we can add being happy to the list.1 Happiness does not heal, but happiness protects against falling ill. As a result, happy people live longer. The size of the effect on longevity is comparable [...]
Happy Enough
Ed Diener is a happiness guru. Well, he’s really a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois who’s made a career of researching positive psychology and happiness. “Happy people are more likely (than unhappy people) to get married, are more likely to stay married, are more likely to think their marriage is good,” Diener [...]
Happiness
“Are you experiencing joy right this moment?” I was eating lunch with one of my colleagues when he posed this question. “Well… I don’t know. I suppose not. Mostly, I’m just feeling hungry.” Exactly, he went on to explain. I had taken the opportunity to staff a client I was concerned about. She had responded [...]
