happiness
Children across the Western world are getting less happy. If we can’t find a way to reverse the trend, it might have an outsized impact on their future.
After a while, even the most exciting relationships, jobs and environments lose their spark. But cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot says it's possible to fall back in love with life's small joys.
Mo Gawdat says it took him much longer to find happiness than it did for him to find success, so he hacked it for everyone else.
“Without unhappiness, you wouldn’t survive, learn, or come up with a good idea,” points out Harvard professor Arthur C Brooks.
What makes people happy? A huge database is making it possible to discern the answer at last.