6 month ago
philgyford : Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All - New York Times - A paper rebuts the Easterlin paradox (that above a certain level money doesn't make one happier). (via Kevin Kelly)
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9 month ago
philgyford : Death and Underachievement: A Guide to Happiness in Work | 43 Folders - Maybe my resolution should be "just be content". But then I'd try too hard to achieve it.
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12 month ago
philgyford : Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert | Excerpt - "Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had presumed." "Happiness is not really what or where we thought it was." (via Haddock)
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12 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: What Do I Do When I Want to Do Everything?: A Revolutionary Programme for Doing Everything That You Love: Books: Barbara Sher - The idea of self-help books makes me cringe, but this does sound intriguing... (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)
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12 month ago
philgyford : ScienceDirect - Journal of Vocational Behavior : The role of chance events in career decision making - "Chance events were reported as influencing the career decisions of 69.1% of the sample." (via Haddock)
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12 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success: Books: Marci Alboher - Also sounds cringeworthy (like most self-help books) but possibly ideal. (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)
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14 month ago
deusx : Experiences Make People Happier Than Material Goods, Says CU Prof | News Center | University of Colorado at Boulder - "When it comes to spending money in the pursuit of happiness, the "good life" may be better lived by doing things rather than by having things, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher."
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15 month ago
deusx : Survey: Men Happiest With Smart Wives - Living Now on The Huffington Post - "Men in search of true happiness should steer clear of bimbos and dumb blondes: research shows men are happiest if they marry smart women."
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19 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Barry Schwartz : Stop the treadmill! - Interesting review of what sounds like a fascinating book: 'The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950' by Avner Offer. (Subscribers only unfortunately.)
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20 month ago
philgyford : Research | Within Families - The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness - How to ensure your child has a happier life, but interesting and valuable for adults too. A shame the references are linked to online resources. (via Blackbeltjones)
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21 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted - Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted: "The best strategy for career planning is this: make your best guess, try it out and don't be surprised if you don't like it. But for heaven's sake don't mention this in your interviews."
philgyford : PsyBlog: Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted - The group who chose their sandwiches for the week in advance "are significantly less happy with their choices than the group who chose their sandwiches on the day." (via Haddock)
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22 month ago
deusx : The Weird Thing (Ftrain.com) - "I did the weird thing and I was happy."
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23 month ago
plasticbag : Apparently thinking of three good things that happened to you or you did before going to bed improves general happiness - This is an AP story, heavily syndicated all over the internets. I wonder about things like the AP. It drives me mad that this link probably won't work in a few weeks. At the moment it's on hundreds of sites. In a year? I don't know that it'll be on any. D
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cameron : Dan Gilbert on synthetic happiness - Mr. Gilbert talks about synthetic happiness, the hedonic treadmill and the effect of choice on making us unhappy
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26 month ago
merlinmann : Stefan Sagmeister (kottke.org) - "thinking life will be better in the future is stupid. i have to live now"
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30 month ago
erikbenson : A negative review of Alain de Botton's new book, "The Architecture of Happiness" - I loved Status Anxiety but this review makes me think this newest book isn't as good. I should work my way backwards.
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32 month ago
erikbenson : 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions - I wonder if there are guidelines for ways to prime your unconscious mind solve problems in your sleep.
plasticbag : 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions - this may be more true of me than other people... - “At some point in our evolution, we started to make decisions consciously, and we’re not very good at it. We should learn to let our unconscious handle the complicated things"
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33 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Early Retirement - Early Retirement: This article addresses the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young.
Nelson Minar : PhilG: early retirement - Reports from his life
kayodeok : Early Retirement - This article addresses the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young. The author retired in 2001, at the age of 37 (same age as Rossini when he retired)
Matthew M. Boedicker : the standard tools that rich families use to preserve their wealth down through the centuries
jkottke : Phil Greenspun on retiring young - Phil Greenspun on retiring young. "Retirement forces you to stop thinking that it is your job that holds you back. For most people the depressing truth is that they aren't that organized, disciplined, or motivated."
philgyford : Early Retirement - By Philip Greenspun. One can dream. Two general tips: don't read news/email in the morning or your brain will fill and you'll get no work done; and spend more time with other people to increase happiness -- computer programming is bad. (via Kottke)
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35 month ago
erikbenson : A city-side experiment to make Slough a happier city - This is awesome. An attempt to make the entire city of Slough happier by giving them a Happiness Manifesto and getting them to follow it for 10 weeks. I love city-wide experiments, and with something as interesting as happiness.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Camus on the myth of sisyphus - His philosophy of the absurd is basically that because everything is futile, it's possible to be happy.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Learn about Absurdism (or the philosophy of the absurd) - Absurdism is a philosophy stating that the efforts of man to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail because no such meaning exists.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Serotonin syndrome, what happens when you're too "happy" - I actually feel like I have some of these symptoms, maybe I'm too happy.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Everyone at office hours tonight gets a free trial of 5-HTP - Soon, we'll all be extremely happy.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, why not think about the emotion called happiness? - Utilitarianism, Epicurianism, Objectivism, Hedonism, and Eudaimonism are all philosophies related to happiness and pleasure. Which do you subscribe to?
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47 month ago
cameron : Wired News: The true measure of success - Prosperity should be measured by Gross National Happiness not GDP
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