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What if being happy at work is all just a huge scam?

For people that care about this kind of stuff (**raises hand**), now seems to be kind of a landmark time in the “Intersection Of Happiness And Work” research/execution world. Will Davies wrote an article for The Atlantic in June on… Continue Reading

How to fix your habits: Personalize them

Great article with Gretchen Rubin (it’s essentially an interview) at Wharton’s website, and it ends with this (the end of interviews tend to be a good summary of everything that went on, right?): There is no one-size-fits-all solution. We’re constantly… Continue Reading

Three ways to make your employees happier

Happy, Jumping Employees

Let’s say you took a reputable university — i.e. someplace like Harvard! — and then you went back a few decades in time and surveyed one of their graduating classes, say … 1980. Now, the results are potentially biased, because the… Continue Reading

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It’s no longer “time is money.” Now time is literally the new money.

Time Is The New Money

Give people their time back, instead of just more cash, and they might lock in with you for longer. Continue Reading

Happiness isn’t a linear thing; it’s more like a U-Curve

Happiness U-Curve

You’ll probably be happier at certain ages throughout your life, which is pretty logical. Continue Reading

Happiness is bullshit. But you can be content. Here’s how.

Happiness vs. Contentment

Probably the worst thing about the end of a calendar year in the social media era is that every site designs one of those “… My Year In Review…” constructs, so you can piece together a bunch of photos/statuses about… Continue Reading

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Why aren’t airports happier places?

Airports should be happier places

They should be, right? It’s the start of journeys. Continue Reading

Being happy: shift away from money, towards time

Happiness

Research on happiness is always somewhat interesting to me. After all, that’s pretty much the basic human emotion we’re all seeking, right? People are always trying to be happy. There are entire industries that spring up around trying to make people happy.… Continue Reading