The Happiness Delusion
Are you happy? In my experience, when asked this question, not many people will respond with an uncategorical yes . And even those few will have a caveat they don't wish to make public. There has been a truck-load (a scientific term meaning "a large number") of research undertaken over the last twenty years or so into the nature of happiness. Harvard conducted an 85-year longitudinal study ( https://www.weforum.org/videos/harvard-conducted-an-85-year-study-on-happiness-here-s-what-it-found/ ) which found a range of factors affecting happiness, but didn't define it. Bhutan, a small country in the Himalayas regularly produces its "Gross National Happiness (GNH) index" alongside the other indicators of the country's standing. ( https://www.gnhcentrebhutan.org/gnh-happiness-index/ ) Scientific American has also published on this matter ( https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-the-happiness-research-that-stands-up-to-scrutiny/ ). It seems that there...
