The Theory of Flow. In 2009 Vishen Lakhiani was asked to speak at Engage Today in Calgary along with such luminaries as Sir Richard Branson, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Stephen Covey, Nobel Prize Winner F.W De Klerk, Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos.com and world-famous artist Wyland.
This speech won the audience vote as one of the best speeches of the entire event. Vishen talks about Flow: The Ultimate State of Human Existence. He then shared 10 tips on how to master this state and how to bring it to teams, families, and groups you lead. The video is just 39 mins. The last 13 mins are just Q&A with the audience (with a lot of jokes in between) This isn’t what you’d learn about in MBA school. Measuring the Happiness of Large-Scale Written Expression: Songs, Blogs, and Presidents. Earth Institute publishes first ever World Happiness Report.
The first ever World Happiness Report has been made public and states that our best chance at a contented life is to pack up and move to Scandinavia.
Published by The Earth Institute at Columbia University and co-edited by its director, the report was commissioned for a United Nations conference on happiness. The report collated data from several different happiness measurement exercises worldwide to create a "life evaluation score", which took in not just wealth but also social factors such as political freedom, strong social networks and an absence of corruption as well as personal criteria including good mental and physical health, someone to count on, job security and having a stable family life.
The sources include the Gallup World Poll (GWP), the World Values Survey (WVS), the European Values Survey (EVS), and the European Social Survey (ESS). Image credit: Shutterstock.com. World Happiness Report. Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire was developed by psychologists Michael Argyle and Peter Hills at Oxford University.
Take a few moments to take the survey. Happiness Survey. 12 Tricks Your Brain is Playing on You. Is your mind playing tricks on you and robbing you of your happiness?
Our minds are complex and are often our own worst enemies when it comes to being happy. Really. Happy Now, Happy Next Year: Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Happiness. Happiness is becoming a huge area in psychological research and even in government policy, with the UK government exploring a “happiness index”.
It’s tough, though, to define exactly what happiness is, and what makes us happy. There are two broad ways of looking at happiness, though: short-term happiness (a great cookie, a bottle of wine) and long-term happiness (financial security, achieving your goals). Both types of happiness are valid, and important. The problem is, they’re often in competition. Let’s say you’ve got a goal of losing 50lbs this year. In the short-term, though, it’s not that easy. 61 Ways To Find Inspiration When You're Stuck and Feeling Down. This article has a number of tips to help you find inspiration.
They are written keeping in mind everyone who’s stuck at something, doesn’t matter what it is, is looking to get inspired. Hope you find some of them useful. 1. Talk to someone you love. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Gross National Happiness Web Site. World Database of Happiness. Happy Planet Index. Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index. Happy Planet Index. Map showing countries shaded by their position in the Happy Planet Index (2006).
The highest-ranked countries are bright green; the lowest are brown. The index is designed to challenge well-established indices of countries’ development, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI), which are seen as not taking sustainability into account. In particular, GDP is seen as inappropriate, as the usual ultimate aim of most people is not to be rich, but to be happy and healthy.[1] Furthermore, it is believed that the notion of sustainable development requires a measure of the environmental costs of pursuing those goals.[2] Out of the 178 countries surveyed in 2006, the best scoring countries were Vanuatu, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, and Panama, although Vanuatu is absent from all later indices.[3] In 2009 Costa Rica was the best scoring country among the 143 analyzed, followed by the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Guatemala and Vietnam.
Methodology[edit] Pros: Cons: Psychology of Happiness. A new and blossoming field of psychology – positive psychology – has begun to uncover fascinating, evidence-based answers to many questions about happiness.
I’ve been sizing up the most recent findings to reveal the emerging science of happiness. 10 Ways Happy People Choose Happiness. Post written by: Marc Chernoff Email All the happiness you ever find lies within you.
Happiness Research. Die glückliche Variante des Kapitalismus. The happy variety of capitalism.