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May 13th, 2010

What Makes Us Happy?

“Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age.”

Check out this article in The Atlantic on “one of the longest-running—and probably the most exhaustive—longitudinal studies of mental and physical well-being in history”. It’s pretty enlightening! It seems that happiness can be manufactured by US!

What Makes Us Happy? Article in The Atlantic