Fabrice Grinda

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Ever since I saw Matthieu’s great speeches on the habits of happiness, I was intrigued and interested in learning more.

I recently came across an engaging article in Ode on Matthieu’s life story.

Read it at:
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/42/the_world_s_happiest_man/

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Matthieu Richard makes a great presentation on the phenomenal plasticity of the brain. The deliberate actions one can take to reach a sense of well being will resonate with the readers of my articles on Happiness. It’s time to start mind training!

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New scientific research that shows we can alter the emotional landscape of our brains from anxiety to happiness – and from almost any state to another state – by learning (and continuously practicing!) the right techniques.

Read the article at:
http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200803_omag_happiness

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An article on the Freakonomics blog repudiates the notion that happiness is contagious. While an increase in your friend’s happiness statistically significantly increases your happiness level, Justin Wolfers contends that the cause is the shared emotional experiences and environments that friends share.

There is no good way to differentiate in the data whether an individual’s increase in happiness is due to his friend’s increase in happiness or to some shared external event that increased both your happiness levels (e.g.; your favorite baseball team just won the World Series).

However, now that I think about it, Justin Wolfer’s explanation seems more probable. Amusingly in the same British Medical Journal where the James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis released their happiness is contagious article, Ethan Cohen-Cole and Jason Fletcher setup an experiment which “proved” that height, headaches and acne are contagious in order to prove that silly experimental setups lead to silly conclusions :)

Read the article at:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/is-happiness-contagious/?emc=eta1

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A new study suggests that your happiness is heavily influenced by the happiness of the people around you.

Read the article in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/health/05happy.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

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There is a great series of interviews on the topic of happiness on Ted.com.

Check them out at:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/themes/what_makes_us_happy.html

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You have to watch this! It’s so inspiring and touching!

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