Best of 2009, #3) Article

[buster]

What's an article that you read that blew you away? That you shared with all your friends. That you shared and referenced throughout the year.

It would definitely have to be this article:

What Makes Us Happy?
Is there a formula-some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation-for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been

Comments

[labrujah]

what did you take away from the Up series?

[buster]

I loved it, while also sort of laughing at its generation gap and the bias of the documentarian. I think it's a work of art and despite its flaws shows something awe-inspiring and magnificent about life! Have you seen it?

[labrujah]

I saw it a few years ago...the lack of class mobility that showed over the years made me a bit sad...but I liked it for what it was.

[miss_eagle_eye]

I looooove the Up Series! I was totally floored by the three upper crust boys that they interviewed together as children. They claimed they were reading the Wall Street Journal and playing stocks at the age of 7! And they all (predictably) grew up to be successful. I also liked the guy who grew up rich and ended up being a middle-class teacher. I LOVE that series. They're filming the next one right now!

[capricornia]

i forgot how wonderful that article was!

i have been looking for an app to record my moods daily - health wise and mental wise. how tired i am, how good i feel, how happy i am etc.

if this doesn't exist could you create it? :)

[buster]

I've been thinking of this app for a loooong time and keep changing my mind about what exactly it should be. There are some general-purpose mood-tracking apps out there (search for "mood" or "mood track" in the App Store), but they all fall short.

My favorite web app that works on iPhones is http://trackyourhappiness.org which I helped out for a couple months until I got overwhelmed with other things.

But, yeah, eventually!