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The Science of Happiness: 12 Habits That Make You Happy Somewhere in the last few decades, a quiet but significant shift took place in psychology. For most of the twentieth century, researchers studying the human mind were almost exclusively concerned with what goes wrong — depression, anxiety, trauma, disorder. Then, beginning in the late 1990s, a small group of psychologists began asking a different question: not what makes...

What the Science of Happiness Says About Money, Success, and the Things We Actually Chase There is a particular kind of conversation that happens in the margins of ambitious lives — in the taxi on the way back from a late meeting, in the quiet after the celebration has ended, in the spare moment between one goal achieved and the next one identified. It is not a conversation...

A Beginner’s Guide to the Science of Happiness: Where to Start, What to Read, What to Do Most people arrive at the Science of Happiness the same way: through a moment of honest reckoning. Perhaps it is a Sunday afternoon that should feel satisfying but somehow doesn’t. Perhaps it is the realisation, somewhere in the middle of a busy and apparently successful life, that the happiness that was...