On Happiness

I wanted to share two websites that seem to post interesting pieces on the topic of happiness with fair regularity. First is TED, the conference that brings together the best of “ideas worth spreading”. Just search on the term “happiness” at ted.com and you can get links to some of the world’s best minds sharing their research and thoughts on this topic. Here’s one talk on how we “synthesize” happiness:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

Second, the New York Times is running a blog happydays.blogs.nytimes.com, a blog about “The Pursuit of What Matters in Troubled Times”. It brings together musings and reflections on this topic by world renowed writers and scientists. Be warned that most of these folks are way beyond the 26 – 30 year age range. And from yesterday’s class, you now know what kind of happiness they will talk about .