Usually, I’m slightly skeptical of such reports, but the scope of Harvard Medical School’s recent study on the spread of happiness is really impressive. Over 20 years, scholars studied a group of around 50,000 people to determine how happiness spreads in a group. (An article on their findings can be found here.) If you are [...]
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Lately, I’ve been struck by the idea that happiness comes in two distinct varieties, a notion introduced by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. By Kahneman’s lights, there is experiential happiness, and there is memory-based happiness. The former describes happiness of the moment, whether or not you’re happy this very second. The latter is more slippery; it’s [...]
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On April 1, 1973, Yoko Ono and John Lennon held a press conference to tell the world about their imaginary place, a conceptual country called Nutopia, a place where the only law was the cosmic law. In those days the duo used their fame to create performance art, often based on the idealism that fueled [...]
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