Who doesn’t want to be happy? Turns out you can now get a Ph.D. in Happiness…Check this article from The New York Times:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1606395,00.html
I also found these interesting…
“The New Science of Happiness” from Time Magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/3353kz
Dilbert’s formula for happiness:
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/happiness_formu.html
Finding utopia on a wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia
Sign me up…
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Getting Serious About Happiness
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Studying happiness is hard. What one man loves another loathes. One woman’s
joy is another’s junk. Social scientists, therefore, have generally left the
contemplation of smiles and satisfaction to poets and philosophers. But
that’s changing. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a leading expert on well-being, is
establishing what he calls the world’s first Ph.D program focusing
on positive psychology and the analysis of happiness, at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif. “Even though the
things that make people happy seem ephemeral and immaterial, they are the
most important things in life, and they have not been studied very
seriously,” says Csikszentmihalyi, a professor of psychology and management and author of Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience. |
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