‘It would be impossible to “hack” flow on demand,’ says Dr Cameron Norsworthy. But we can increase our chances to experience it, he adds.Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images What is the secret to ...

In my last post, I discussed “flow, which has been an important concept in the development of positive psychology. Flow, as I noted there, is a condition of deep situational engagement, when we think ...

I had never “gotten” the game of golf or fathomed what is so exciting about it until a chronically ill colleague recently let me witness the game through his eyes. He spoke of golf as something he ...

Editors Note: Val Farmer is on vacation. This popular column was published in November 1999. Most of us believe that if we only had a little more money, our lives would improve. Is that right? Not so, ...

Between chief happiness officers, the Happy Planet Index, Gross National Happiness, and the World Happiness Report (Finland scored the highest again this year), it seems as though happiness has some ...

A small New Jersey college has launched the world’s first Ph.D. in Happiness Studies — a fully virtual, four-year program designed to train experts in the science of wellbeing. “The need has never ...

Jeffrey Rosen spent the Covid lockdowns of 2020 reading various treatises by Xenophon, Seneca, Cicero, John Locke and David Hume. He was led to these and other works by a list compiled by Thomas ...

The world’s happiest country has managed to keep its No. 1 ranking for eight years running. The picture in the United States isn’t so rosy. While Finland once again tops the World Happiness Report’s ...

As they approach the end of life, a significant number of women share the same profound regret — not having lived authentically, but rather having worried too much about how others perceived them.

United Nations – A group of experts found that Finland remains the happiest country in the world, according to a report released Monday in conjunction with the U.N.'s International Day of Happiness.