Archive for May, 2009
What makes you happy?
This article, and the underlying study, is so good that I almost don’t dare talk too much about it here. You really should just read it.
In a nutshell: for the past 72 years, a sample of 268 men have been followed and their entire history – medical, familial, physical, emotional, mental – recorded in great depth. The study is coming to end, mainly because only half of the original group are still alive, and they are in their late eighties. It has a huge amount to teach us about how our lives shape our personalities, and vice versa.