Build their job around the lifestyle they desire, and make sure that you address happiness levels frequently within your current team.
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The lotto kings and queens simply adjust and their happiness levels normalize.
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The latest theories propose that our happiness levels are 50% down to our genes, 10% down to our circumstances and 40% down to intentional activity.
Because the baseline happiness levels are simply too high to hurdle.
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The researchers took their results and compared them against census data and found that wealthy areas tended to have higher happiness levels and that areas with high rates of obesity has lower happiness levels.
Americans, though, buck the conventional wisdom that average levels of happiness do not increase as a society gets richer.
The negative effect on reported levels of happiness of being paid less than your peers is not visible for people aged under 45.
That result sits comfortably with other studies showing that, on average, Asian countries report lower levels of happiness than their GDP per head would suggest.
One truly compelling piece of data he offers: lottery winners and parapelegics, one year after the event (either winning the lottery or losing the use of their legs) report nearly identical levels of happiness.
Men have a slight happiness advantage, reporting higher levels of well-being than women.
But the Ipsos study shows the highest levels of self-reported happiness not in rich countries, as one would expect, but in poor and middle-income ones, notably Indonesia, India and Mexico.
According to Shawn Achor, researcher and author of The Happiness Advantage, positive employees outperform negative employees in terms of sales, energy levels, turnover rates and health-care costs by as much as 30%.
The result: Levels of oxytocin, a feel-good hormone linked to love and happiness, were an average 38% higher for people who got a coupon.
Research by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, shows that reversible, keep-your-options-open decisions reliably lead to lower levels of satisfaction than irreversible ones.
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