Happiness Explained
“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.” (Sir Thomas Browne, 1642)
The Surprising Science of Happiness | Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned . . .”
“We need to learn how to want what we have, not to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness.” Dalai Lama: the The Art of Happiness
The science of emotions: Jaak Panksepp at TED: Affective neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp explains a modern approach to emotions, and how taking seriously the emotions of other animals might soon improve the lives of millions:
