Happiness

[andrewducker]

I know there are a few people on my friends list who are depressed.

They should read this - an article on a set of scientific studies into happiness, and how it works.

amongst the many things they've looked into, they've studied what simple things people can do which increase happiness. It's on page 2 somewhere, but you should take a look at the whole thing.

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

"Seligman and his graduate students weep tears of joy when they do this exercise, but most Brits would probably rather be miserable than do it. So it's a relief to hear that it doesn't work particularly well. It has strong, but only brief, effects."

By George, some foreign blighter attempting to make the stiff upper lip all wobbly. That's not cricket, what! Poor chap must have been influenced by those d**m Continental bounders with their preposterous beards and outlandish theories (all soon to be exploding by right-thinking sorts, doubtless).

Consign the blackguards to the Fleet and d*v*l take the rest, I say. A real gent doesn't have these "emotion" whatchamacallums.