So What Do You Have To Do To Find Happiness?

[stevenstrange]

Someone posted a link to this article on what gravenimages calls the motherboard. I thought it was worth passing on.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1793873_1,00.html

Comments

[nexrad]

A good read. I recall having this information in one of my classes not too long ago... Seligman, too, very familiar with his works. Thanks for the post on this. :-)

[stevenstrange]

Yeah, I think I should read Authentic Happiness and Learned Optimism. I'm due for a little boost.

It was also interesting to read in that article about what a bummed out place Scotland is. Make you think of anyone?

[gravenimages]

When two American psychologists studied hundreds of students and focused on the top 10% “very happy” people, they found they spent the least time alone and the most time socialising. Psychologists know that increasing the number of social contacts a miserable person has is the best way of cheering them up. When Jean-Paul Sartre wrote “hell is other people,” the arch-pessimist of existentialist angst was wrong

[futurist_]

Thanks for passing on the article.