tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990205170044970712024-03-18T22:13:53.643-05:00The Philosophy of HappinessWhat is it, how can we best pursue it, why should we? Supporting the study of these and related questions at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond. PHIL 3160 – Philosophy of Happiness - "Examining the concept of human happiness and its application in everyday living as discussed since antiquity by philosophers, psychologists, writers, spiritual leaders, and contributors to pop culture."Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.comBlogger867125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-69661778529651414992021-08-10T17:30:00.005-05:002021-08-11T10:00:26.318-05:00Welcome, class of 2021!<p>We're actually going to start a <a href="https://philoshap2.blogspot.com/">new blogsite</a> this semester, at <a href="https://philoshap2.blogspot.com">https://philoshap2.blogspot.com</a>/ -- see you there!</p><p>jpo</p>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-49284539207406592252021-07-27T11:46:00.001-05:002021-07-27T11:46:15.616-05:00Habit de-forming, for health and happinessHarvard Center for Health and Happiness (@HarvardCenterHH) tweeted:<p>"All habits need to be re-examined from time to time." <p>This @GreaterGoodSC podcast examines the practice of temporarily abstaining from something you find enjoyable. Featuring @michaelpollan & Dr. @DunnHappyLab. <a href="https://t.co/bH0Remkn1e">https://t.co/bH0Remkn1e</a> <a href="https://t.co/LNmO6oJ7DQ">https://t.co/LNmO6oJ7DQ</a><br>(<a href="https://twitter.com/HarvardCenterHH/status/1418658460753858560?s=02">https://twitter.com/HarvardCenterHH/status/1418658460753858560?s=02</a>)Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-8415855196023958982021-07-27T07:41:00.000-05:002021-07-27T07:41:01.770-05:00Not an either/or<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Those who reject false dichotomies are best. <a href="https://t.co/mmEb4cIOKR">https://t.co/mmEb4cIOKR</a></p>— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER) <a href="https://twitter.com/OSOPHER/status/1419998584599154735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-39442988252989476072021-07-22T06:44:00.002-05:002021-07-22T06:44:41.021-05:00Wobegon happiness<p> <a href="https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/a-ball-game-a-book-and-a-brat-happiness/">A ball game, a book, and a brat: happiness</a></p>Posted on July 9, 2021 - <a href="https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/category/column/">Columns</a><br /><br />Being a 78-year-old unemployed orphan does not qualify me as a tragic victim and that is just a fact, plus the fact I am married to a woman who has a big heart, loves a good time, is fond of me in particular, and she is also able to read instruction manuals, which is something you don’t notice during courtship, your mind is on other things, but now in the twilight years when one is tempted to throw the new printer over the parapet and hear it crash on the pavement below, it is good to have a rationalist in my life.<br /><br />So I don’t need to discuss my fear and loathing of washers, dryers, coffee makers, and air conditioners, their mysterious manuals, because that’s her department so instead I’ll tell about Amazon and their purchase of MGM this summer, which earned a bundle for my family so that people now assume we’re going to leave Minnesota and move to an island in the Caribbean. No way.<a href="https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/writing/#">READ MORE</a> <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/happiness-comes-to-those-who-dont-give-a-rip/">Happiness comes to those who don’t give a rip</a><br />Posted on July 6, 2021 - <a href="https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/category/column/">Columns</a><br /><br />I am a happy man now that I know what the secret of happiness is, which, according to Buddha and Jesus both, is to give up wanting things. It’s just that simple. I’ve bought houses in hopes of happiness, taken vacation trips to Hawaii and Norway and Barbados, bought three-piece suits and shirts with French cuffs, and spent as much as $28 on a haircut, and felt vaguely dissatisfied after, but now I am 78, an age at which I expected to be cranky and of course there’s still time but now I discover I can’t get what I want because I’ve forgotten what it is. So there you are. Time solves another problem.<br /><br />Happiness is rare for a writer, an occupation with a failure rate somewhere around 85 or 92 percent. If doctors had our failure rate, America would be a country of about 15 million, most of them not feeling well. The westward migration would’ve ended at the Mississippi. Why cross a big river when you’re already nauseated and feverish?<br /><br />Luckily, we writers get to discard our mistakes, unlike doctors. In this line of work, there are no autopsies. I threw away two versions of the first paragraph, each one dumber than the other, and nobody will ever see them, just the one that begins “I am a happy man.” Two sheets of paper, crumpled, in the wastebasket, made me happy.<a href="https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/writing/#">READ MORE</a> <br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/writing/">Garrison Keillor</a></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-11764679841995747372021-07-11T07:30:00.000-05:002021-07-11T07:31:01.117-05:00Surprised by joy<div dir="ltr"><b>Wonking Out: mRNA and the Meaning of Life</b><br><br><i>Americans are suddenly feeling good. Why?</i><div><br></div><div>Happy days are here again. No, really. Gallup has been asking Americans since the beginning of 2008 whether they are "thriving." The percentage answering yes hit a low point in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis and again during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. But it has soared in recent months, to 59.2 percent, its highest level ever...<br><br>Paul Krugman, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/opinion/us-covid-mrna-vaccines.html?smid=em-share">nyt </a></div></div> Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-75533358319947582872021-07-10T11:56:00.001-05:002021-07-10T11:56:36.745-05:00A Young Naturalist Inspires With Joy, Not Doom<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>At 17, Dara McAnulty is becoming one of Britain’s most acclaimed nature writers, with work that touches on his autism as much as the world around his home.</p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>MONEYDARRAGH, Northern Ireland — While he carefully stepped from one moss-carpeted rock to another, Dara McAnulty outlined his rules for nature watching.<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> </p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>BOOKS: Be the first to read books news and see reviews, news and features in The New York Times Book Review.<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> Sign Up</p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>“You’ll never see something if you bring a camera,” he said on this coastal stretch of Northern Ireland, “and you’ll definitely never see what you’re intending to find.”<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> </p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>His rules quickly proved true. McAnulty had wanted to use the ramble near his home to show off the local curlew population, but it was high tide — with waves sending salt spray spurting over the rocks — and there were no birds to be seen.<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> </p> <div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>Instead, he squatted down to stare into a rock pool in search of his latest obsession: shrimp. Seaweed swayed in the water, but there were no signs of marine life. Then, suddenly, he noticed the smallest movement. “Oh, there’s a shrimpy boy!” he shouted. “Oh my God, it’s amazing. Can you see it? Can you see it?”<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr><br> (continues) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/books/dara-mcanulty-diary-of-a-young-naturalist.html?smid=em-share</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-90268686333496913792021-07-10T11:32:00.001-05:002021-07-10T11:32:15.470-05:00Collective effervescence<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>There’s a Specific Kind of Joy We’ve Been Missing </p> <p dir=ltr>We find our greatest bliss in moments of <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Elementary_Forms_of_the_Religious_Li/hGBONzTMqM4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=durkheim+collective+effervescence&printsec=frontcover">collective </a><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Elementary_Forms_of_the_Religious_Li/hGBONzTMqM4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=durkheim+collective+effervescence&printsec=frontcover">effervescence</a>. It’s a concept coined in the early 20th century by the pioneering sociologist Émile Durkheim to describe the sense of energy and harmony people feel when they come together in a group around a shared purpose. Collective effervescence is the synchrony you feel when you slide into rhythm with strangers on a dance floor, colleagues in a brainstorming session, cousins at a religious service or teammates on a soccer field. And during this pandemic, it’s been largely absent from our lives.<br> </p> </div><div align="left" ><p dir=ltr><br> </p> </div><div align="left" ><p dir=ltr>Collective effervescence happens when joie de vivre spreads through a group...<br> </p> </div><p dir=ltr> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/opinion/sunday/covid-group-emotions-happiness.html?smid=em-share</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-61106145356700947382021-07-01T09:58:00.005-05:002021-07-01T09:58:54.727-05:00Cosmic unhappiness<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_8gxzUoLQqV_JLsNm-70lJM5OSK7qGu2Nf5sd7xZTQ9_BK1Y78YuM8Spciu0Ox3CHbCErkLoL858oA7bmAL0Cnul4e_HjaSvCj57bYXDd4a_NzNOA_k58PjjT3r_dtYFoYDodSvgh3QM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1376" data-original-width="1600" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_8gxzUoLQqV_JLsNm-70lJM5OSK7qGu2Nf5sd7xZTQ9_BK1Y78YuM8Spciu0Ox3CHbCErkLoL858oA7bmAL0Cnul4e_HjaSvCj57bYXDd4a_NzNOA_k58PjjT3r_dtYFoYDodSvgh3QM/w400-h344/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-21043117926155797802021-06-27T14:14:00.001-05:002021-06-27T14:14:53.997-05:00"Our culture... values happiness inordinately"<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>From The New York Times: We Want to Travel and Party. Hold That Thought. How to grieve 16 months of sickness, death and isolation.</p> <p dir=ltr>...Facing suffering head-on is not an easy task or one that’s encouraged in our culture, which values happiness inordinately. Telling or changing our story takes time, and it can be a painful process. But it’s a necessary one if we want to move past the brokenness of this difficult year toward a newfound sense of wholeness.<br> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/opinion/covid-pandemic-grief.html?smid=em-share</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-46486690847878721162021-06-19T19:55:00.001-05:002021-06-19T19:55:35.594-05:00Dr. HappinessHappiness "sounds flaky, kind of frivolous," Dr. Diener said. But, he explained, "well-being is much, much more than having fun." <a href="https://t.co/UiwLQ8nQY2">https://t.co/UiwLQ8nQY2</a><br>(<a href="https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1406399911676022785?s=02">https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1406399911676022785?s=02</a>)Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-54230616519005672712021-06-19T16:59:00.001-05:002021-06-19T16:59:44.356-05:00The dark side of happiness<a href="https://youtu.be/PbtzY-8IFTQ">https://youtu.be/PbtzY-8IFTQ</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-7732645169984954172021-06-05T17:07:00.000-05:002021-06-05T18:18:45.610-05:00This could be why you're depressed or anxious | Johann HariFind your tribes...
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<br><a href="https://youtu.be/MB5IX">https://youtu.be/MB5IX</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-22501650821382916142021-05-28T07:41:00.001-05:002021-05-28T07:41:03.673-05:00"True happiness" according to Shakespeare and Shelby Foote<p> <a href="https://osopher.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/true-happiness/">An old post</a>:</p><h2 style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; margin: 30px 0px 0px;">True happiness</h2><small class="single-by" style="color: #777777; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.5em; text-transform: capitalize;"></small><div class="entry" style="line-height: 1.4em;"><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em; text-align: justify;">Shelby Foote was right about “<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4462295" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none;">true happiness in this world</a>“: it’s all about finishing each day’s work and already looking forward in eager anticipation to the next. I’d rather not be anchored to a single desk, myself. I have several, at home and at school; and I try to think of every walkable spot of ground as part of a big rolling unbounded work station. I even regard my hammocks (which are also mobile) that way, when I want to. But then I’ve not published 3 million words between covers yet, so maybe I’m not quite the authority on this topic that he is.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em; text-align: justify;">In any case, I really love the way Shelby perked up near the end of that 3-hour C-SPAN session with the stony-faced and humorless Mr. Lamb to offer his vibrant observation about the connection between happiness and meaningful work. He’d clearly given the matter some thought, it’s exactly <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/931/the-art-of-fiction-no-158-shelby-foote" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none;">what he told the Paris Review in 1999</a>:</p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); color: #777777; font-family: "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 15px 30px 0px 10px; padding-left: 20px; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-size: 1.05em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.6364px; line-height: 16.3636px;">“People say, My God, I can’t believe that you really worked that hard for twenty years. How in God’s name did you do it? Well, obviously I did it because I enjoyed it. I don’t deserve any credit for working hard. I was doing what I wanted to do. Shakespeare said it best: “The labor we delight in physics pain.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.6364px; line-height: 16.3636px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.6364px; line-height: 16.3636px;">There’s no better feeling in the world than to lay your head on the pillow at night looking forward to getting up in the morning and returning to that desk. That’s real happiness.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em; text-align: justify;">Just put figurative wheels on that desk and I’ll be right there with him.</p><div><br /></div></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-25984128346628914262021-05-22T10:49:00.001-05:002021-05-22T10:49:39.489-05:00Stop while you're aheadHappy Friday everyone! #TGIF #CalvinandHobbes <a href="https://t.co/T36w0juCtN">https://t.co/T36w0juCtN</a><br>(<a href="https://twitter.com/Calvinn_Hobbes/status/1396088611687260161?s=02">https://twitter.com/Calvinn_Hobbes/status/1396088611687260161?s=02</a>)Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-18603635701175458292021-05-12T18:58:00.002-05:002021-05-12T18:58:33.816-05:00Sisyphus<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrKANUIat1_heoLk0Iys8fohOltshuqsQ8hkQxVKi8pUApjeMXANPyekpyC6WEG-cNKKbgdrAJEnPhRotzBhbA9bRkmjDGVGiETZNSi0xW4valw6VlgB_9QbDAfwNpZuLyO0LxirygFJM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrKANUIat1_heoLk0Iys8fohOltshuqsQ8hkQxVKi8pUApjeMXANPyekpyC6WEG-cNKKbgdrAJEnPhRotzBhbA9bRkmjDGVGiETZNSi0xW4valw6VlgB_9QbDAfwNpZuLyO0LxirygFJM/w400-h400/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Catching up with Sisyphus (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/catching-up-with-sisyphus">NewYorker</a>)</div><br /> <p></p>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-64669380247608410192021-05-12T10:15:00.003-05:002021-05-12T10:15:51.611-05:00Shopping <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"The problem isn’t buying shit, at least not exactly. It’s misidentifying, again and again, the source and character of our sadness."<br><br>I love <a href="https://twitter.com/annehelen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@annehelen</a>'s writing so much.<br><br>Sign up for her newsletter:<a href="https://t.co/85izB8n6JY">https://t.co/85izB8n6JY</a></p>— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1392497636272480274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-2142540215107102172021-05-12T07:49:00.001-05:002021-05-12T07:49:34.027-05:00How Exercise May Help Us Flourish<div dir="ltr"><i>Physical activity can promote a sense of purpose in life, creating a virtuous cycle that keeps you moving.</i><div><br></div><div>Our exercise habits may influence our sense of purpose in life and our sense of purpose may affect how much we exercise, according to an interesting new study of the reciprocal effects of feeling your life has meaning and being often in motion. The study, which involved more than 18,000 middle-aged and older men and women, found that those with the most stalwart sense of purpose at the start were the most likely to become active over time, and vice versa...<br><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/well/move/exercise-mental-health-flourishing.html?smid=em-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/well/move/exercise-mental-health-flourishing.html?smid=em-share</a></div></div> Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-32057848384203755432021-05-09T07:41:00.001-05:002021-05-09T07:41:22.122-05:00Baggini on Hume<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">It’s Hume’s birthday (May 7) and look what arrived just in time. <a href="https://t.co/Z1H4tox3Eq">pic.twitter.com/Z1H4tox3Eq</a></p>— Julian Baggini (@JulianBaggini) <a href="https://twitter.com/JulianBaggini/status/1390580410971836422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">For Hume's Birthday: A very short film on The Imperfection of (his) Genius, ahead of my soon to be published by <a href="https://twitter.com/PrincetonUPress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PrincetonUPress</a> book <a href="https://t.co/nij6jJtoqR">pic.twitter.com/nij6jJtoqR</a></p>— Julian Baggini (@JulianBaggini) <a href="https://twitter.com/JulianBaggini/status/1390664994078003203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz" data-testid="tweet" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 0; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-1hwvwag r-18kxxzh r-1b7u577" style="-webkit-box-align: center; 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Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-25431875649606832082021-05-06T07:03:00.001-05:002021-05-06T07:03:16.388-05:00the ideology of happinessA very interesting interview about the ideology of happiness and living with ordinary misery...<br>(<a href="https://twitter.com/philosophybites/status/1390177212620550146?s=02">https://twitter.com/philosophybites/status/1390177212620550146?s=02</a>)Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-32307211922767405002021-05-02T11:39:00.000-05:002021-05-02T11:43:33.063-05:00“The Link Between Happiness and Creativity"Join us on Thursday, May 6 at 7 p.m. EST and listen to @MargaretRenkl an author and contributing opinion writer for the @nytimes present "The Link Between Happiness and Creativity." <a href="https://t.co/AYZEmwHUqS">https://t.co/AYZEmwHUqS</a><br>(<a href="https://twitter.com/bereacollege/status/1387089675219841024?s=02">https://twitter.com/bereacollege/status/1387089675219841024?s=02</a>)Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-17029247973337776142021-04-30T12:25:00.000-05:002021-04-30T12:29:35.136-05:00"Grim?"The allegedly "grim" explanation is that Finns are reasonable enough to expect everything to be average. There's nothing grim about that.<br><a href="https://t.co/ftKygwuSHU">https://t.co/ftKygwuSHU</a><br>(<a href="https://twitter.com/RobertTalisse/status/1387954867222847489?s=02)">https://twitter.com/RobertTalisse/status/1387954867222847489?s=02)</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-84060124949376627482021-04-20T23:50:00.000-05:002021-04-20T23:53:25.979-05:00Happy Finns again, to their consternationFinland, for the fourth consecutive year, has been named the happiest country in the world by a UN report.<p>The ranking has led some Finns to ask: Really?<p>Here's a look at how the report is put together and why Finland keeps coming out on top.<br><a href="https://t.co/woPexvugG6">https://t.co/woPexvugG6</a><br>(<a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1384449270053543936?s=02">https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1384449270053543936?s=02</a>)Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-17068864745562268112021-04-19T08:25:00.001-05:002021-04-19T08:25:28.443-05:00Cheer up! The happiness guru on how to feel better<div dir="ltr"><b>Meik Wiking is a world expert on what makes us feel happier. So, is there a simple fix?<br></b><br>Sun 18 Apr 2021 08.00 EDT<br><br>Just like that, one of the world's foremost happiness boffins beams into my living room with a megawatt grin and an infectious chuckle. Even though Meik Wiking (pronounced "Mike Viking") is moving house on the day of our interview – surely up there with the most exasperating life events – spirits are high for the bestselling author, public speaker and CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen.<br><br>There are removal boxes "everywhere", he says, but in the Zoom square on my computer all I can see is a handsome Dane with surfer hair and black-rimmed specs flanked by minimalist furniture and a luminous pot plant. Denmark famously ranks among the world's happiest nations and it's tough to think of a better poster boy for the land of cheer.<br><br>The 43-year-old has been busy lately, opening a happiness-themed museum – a world first – in Copenhagen in mid-2020; advising the Nordic Council of Ministers on how social media impacts young people's wellbeing; releasing the paperback version of Happy Moments, a book about creating positive memories; and overseeing a global survey of Covid-19's impact on happiness.<br><br>The pandemic has launched an all-out attack on the emotion to which he has dedicated his career. With much of the world stripped of socialising and confined to cramped apartments, the past 12 months might well go down as the grimmest passage in living memory, with many people experiencing a spike in loneliness, anxiety and suffering...<br><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/18/cheer-up-the-happiness-guru-on-how-to-feel-better">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/18/cheer-up-the-happiness-guru-on-how-to-feel-better</a><div><div class="gmail-css-zjgnrw" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-family:Tinos;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(18,18,18)"><div class="gmail-css-10dfyaa" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:20px;font-family:"GH Guardian Headline","Guardian Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:540px"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></p></div></div></div></div> Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-67956779591207638392021-04-03T07:41:00.001-05:002021-04-03T07:41:06.613-05:00The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border:0px" src="https://books.google.com/books?id=X6GiDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&lpg=PP1&dq=enlightenment%20pursuit&pg=PT9&output=embed" width=500 height=500></iframe>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399020517004497071.post-26559259526433312472021-04-03T07:34:00.003-05:002021-04-03T07:34:51.106-05:00Grandfather Philosophy #18<p> The <a href="https://philoshap.blogspot.com/2020/05/grandfather-philosophy.html">aforementioned</a> Happiness philosopher (and alum)...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sDwBYTggsJ0" width="320" youtube-src-id="sDwBYTggsJ0"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0