[Occupymendocino] What REally Makes Us Happy?

[Richard Karch]

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/a-75-year-study-reveals-what-really-makes-us-happy.html


Robert Waldinger directed a 75-year study looking at what makes us happy. It boils down to three things, and they’re not the things we tend to think are going to make us happy. His TED Talk about the study findings challenges our most common life goals.

When you ask most people what would make them happy, their answers tend to cluster around achievement. Maybe they think they’d be happier if they were rich or famous. Or maybe they feel like success in their careers would bring them true happiness.

Unlike many studies on happiness, the Harvard Study of Health Development happened in real time. The researchers didn’t rely on memories of past events. Instead, this project—passed down from research team to research team for 75 years—followed a group of 724 men through their lives. They were interviewed every two years, and got complete physicals at every check-in.


Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/a-75-year-study-reveals-what-really-makes-us-happy.html#ixzz3xWfaXOGt
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