Happiness, Ranked and Revealed
Understanding younger Americans “happiness” drop off has to include the conversation of carefully cultivated social and news media intake
Tagged: happiness
David French — When the Pursuit of Happiness Becomes the Flight from Pain
Happiness is not hedonism, but David French thinks Americans have lost sight of that truth.
Sometimes The Headline Says It All
By chance, sometimes the U.S. News and World Report rankings provide actual insight validated by empirical evidence. This is one of those times.
The Awful Advice of “Marriage Isn’t for You”
The advice given in that “Marriage Isn’t for You” article going around is terrible. Yes, selfishness isn’t good for marriage, but then neither is self-neglect.
Looking for Small Comforts in the Suburbs
The older I get the more I love the suburbs, or in our case the exurbs. I like the immediacy of all the amenities we need in one direction and the closeness of our...
David Brooks, Expertise, and the Fetishization of Happiness
People have been giving attention to David Brooks’ latest column. This is good, because I have a soft spot for the incorporation of Yiddish into daily life, particularly the word “bagel,” and especially on...
memories & happiness
This post from Jonah Lehrer is interesting, but I also wonder if it’s entirely correct: Why don’t things make us happy? The answer, I think, has to do with a fundamental feature of neurons:...
