Re:Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance
by tim333 on Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:18PM
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>I'm tired of these articles that seek to define ways to be happy
I don't think it's seeking to define anything, just saying that people are sometimes happiest focusing on what they are in to. One reason you see these articles in the US is that people there have been pioneering the scientific study of happiness, or "positive psychology" as it's often put, which only really kicked off in 1998 or so as a proper science. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology)
I'm kind of a fan, partly because I think it could lead to a better way of governing/society. Rather than shouting yay left wing vs yay right wing, you could try to maximise happiness which could become more an engineering project than a shouting thing.
I don't think it's seeking to define anything, just saying that people are sometimes happiest focusing on what they are in to. One reason you see these articles in the US is that people there have been pioneering the scientific study of happiness, or "positive psychology" as it's often put, which only really kicked off in 1998 or so as a proper science. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology)
I'm kind of a fan, partly because I think it could lead to a better way of governing/society. Rather than shouting yay left wing vs yay right wing, you could try to maximise happiness which could become more an engineering project than a shouting thing.