Science knows what people need in their lives to be happy, so why don't our economies support these needs? Can we create a world where everybody has enough?
Facebook's emphasis on experiences instead of material goods is giving us a new way to worry that we may not be keeping up with the Joneses. Here's why that's still a good thing.
If the aim of human society is happiness, freedom, and prosperity, there are indeed many alternative ways to achieve this without endangering the earth and ourselves, and without leaving behind half or more of humanity.
Psychology has long been focused on diagnosing disorders. It took the development of “positive psychology” to change the perspective towards the study (and promotion) of the things that make for happiness and well-being.
A full interview with Ricardo Semler by the Dutch TV-show Backlight. In our episode 'The capital power of hapiness' we made a portret of this Brasilian business man. Here you can watch the full interview of one hour and a half. Mostly unedited, but divided in chapters.
When you take a selfie, your soul is ripped away like meat off bone. You are a shell of a person, the selfie having captured the last life in your eyes. This, finally, is the deadening conclusion printed in the New York Times yesterday after our months of collective selfie obsession. “It does things to us,” author Sherry Turkle warns with a trembling finger, “changing not just what we do but who we are.”
Global Finance presents two different rankings of the World’s Happiest Countries: the Happy Planet Index of the New Economic Foundation and the Life Satisfaction survey, part of the Better Life Index of the OECD.
News Challenge is a global community that will draw on your optimism, inspiration, ideas and opinions to solve problems together for the collective social good.
We’ve all been there before—took a wrong turn and ended up in a “scary” neighborhood. Quickly now, roll up the windows, lock the doors—one-fourth inch of glass will save our lives. What causes us to react this way?
Matthieu Ricard says that the way for all of us to live sustainably on this planet is to adopt a culture of thinking about each other. And not just the others who are here right now, but also people we'll never meet.
In the industrial era, economic growth has become equated with human progress, writes Jules Pretty, with a fundamental assumption that material growth and consumption inevitably leads to improvements in our well-being. Now think again ...
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people on the planet life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures at work.
From 2009 to 2012, Naho Iguchi was the Director of TEDxTokyo; in 2010, she created the spinoff eventTEDxTokyo yz to gather and create a network among younger Japanese innovators and leaders. In 2013, she decided to leave Tokyo and launch a new, more personal project: living in Berlin for a year without holding a job, supported by the love and trust of community members who are financially sponsoring her for the project's duration.
How can we get people more engaged, more productive, and happier at work? Is technology part of the problem -- and could it also be part of the solution?
One of the greatest things about the sustainability movement is the feeling of collaborating on a shared purpose for the common good, whether it’s engaging in action on climate change or getting involved in your local community garden.
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