The Declaration of Independence states that our inalienable rights include “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Life and liberty are easy to understand, but that last phrase is less intuitive. How can people have a right to strive for happiness?
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Uniting to Fight Poverty: A TED Talk
How do we solve problems like poverty with so much political polarization?
Welcome to the Pursuit
To pursue our happiness, to achieve our liberty, and indeed to find fulfillment in our lives, we must start with a moral consensus, a fundamental truth around which we all revolve. Think of an atom. The outer field of electrons is full of chaotic activity. Electrons are rapidly orbiting and moving in a constant buzz. What contains that chaos and gives it structure? The fact that the whole chaotic cloud orbits one central nucleus.
Learning your way to happiness
Does being educated make you happier? The short answer: It depends, but it probably helps.
read moreThe Guardian Happy for Life app interactive dashboard
View up-to-the minute data exploring how the Guardian’s Happy for Life app is helping readers find a little bit of happiness every day. Download the...
read moreCapitalism and compassion: Why morality matters in a market economy
n much of the world, including India, the free enterprise system has come to be associated with material greed, or wealth creation for its own sake. AEI President Arthur C. Brooks believes that supporters of the free market system need to develop a new way of...
read moreThe 10 happiest jobs that don’t require a college degree
A college degree may up your chances of earning more money, but you don’t necessarily need one to be happy at work. Business Insider teamed up with careers site CareerBliss.com to find the 10 happiest jobs that don’t require a four-year degree. CareerBliss...
read moreWhy you should stop acting and start being
Don’t let your character be the accidental byproduct of a thousand impulsive decisions. Carve out time to think deliberately about the character you hope to cultivate.
read moreMaking good choices can feel weirdly difficult
Often, the changes we seek can’t be made by chipping away at one isolated behavior or habit. We have to tackle a whole network of related behaviors at once.
read moreHappiness by the numbers: 8 stats that could change your life
What do the happiest people have in common? They have a handle on at least of few of these eight instant happiness boosters, some of which may already be elevating your mood. 6 or 7: The hours per day of socializing that leads to the highest levels of happiness People...
read moreBono helped kill an industry (and then celebrated)
It was on the day of the largest album launch in history, when the biggest rock band on the planet may have surrendered the music industry to its grave, that U2 frontman Bono declared “music is a sacrament.” The melodies that Plato said give “flight to the...
read moreWorld Family Map 2014
The family is the core institution for child-rearing worldwide, and decades of research have shown that strong families promote positive child outcomes. For this reason theWorld Family Map Project monitors family well-being and investigates how family characteristics...
read moreHow to Be Happier: 3 New Discoveries
Happiness may be as old as the human race. The idea of rigorously studying happiness, however, is far newer. For most of its history, psychology was exclusively concerned with helping those who were struggling. It was a discipline whose main occupation was “spot...
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