Monday, July 7, 2014

Pursue happiness

You've probably heard that lottery winners surprisingly become less happy after winning lots of money.  Why is that?

Arthur Brooks, formerly an economics professor at Syracuse (NY) University, has written about happiness and economics and has an answer.  I was in the audience at a talk he did a few years ago on a university campus and found him smart, authentic, articulate, and well able to defend his research.

His answer to that opening question is related to another statistic that may be surprising:  entrepreneurs are happier with their jobs than most people are.  Watch his four minutes:

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