In the face of the body of literature underscoring the social and emotional benefits of happiness, comes the argument that too much happiness is not good for us.

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That would encourage people to stay in work, which is good for health, happiness and tax revenues.

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Overall then there is good evidence that several simple exercises increase happiness and decrease depression.

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And for the record, I'm using the word gay interchangeably with homosexual for the sake of conversation, because it really is a shame for perfectly good word pertaining to happiness to get associated it with the cultural taboo.

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The Good News is that a full 40% of your happiness level is completely within your control.

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The Legatum study does not look at happiness per se but prosperity, which my colleague Christopher Helman argues is a pretty good proxy.

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Money is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the good life, for happiness and wisdom.

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There is a national predilection of boomers to demand midlife happiness, even if it means they chuck a good portion of the first part of their sort-of eternally vowed adulthood.

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