But the new happiness gurus are much less willing to defer to people's choices.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh says he wrote his new bestseller Delivering Happiness to help readers learn from his mistakes.
My own interest is a little different: Can the new breed of happiness economists offer us any tips for happier living?
New research into happiness and coping offers proof of the value of finding a way to remain distanced from problems in order to tackle them effectively.
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There's a new sense of happiness.
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All the sincere wishes for health and happiness for the New Year from former business relations are no more.
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On the second day of each year, the 2 January, the people of these communities proceed from dedicated sites to the shrine, where they perform nine sacred dances from dawn to noon as a prayer for happiness in the New Year.
It still is that, arguably, but new positioning has it more focused on delivering happiness for vacationers in their terms.
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At least that's what new findings suggest from "The Millionaires Happiness Report" released by the Shanghai-based Hurun Research Institute.
They heard about advances in ape-human communication, about undersea technologies that enable us to discover seven new species an hour and about proof that happiness can be both synthesized by amnesiacs and built up like a muscle by meditation.
CareerBliss says its data highlights new shifts in the way employees and employers value happiness.
Jennifer Westfeldt stars in this new comedy, which she also wrote and directed, as Julie, a New Yorker looking for love, sex, and happiness, though not all at the same time.
And why does this new role contribute to my personal sense of satisfaction and happiness?
As a guest of Delivering Happiness, I stayed at the Ogden, a new downtown high-rise, which Hsieh now calls home.
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Catherine Rampell has been writing a series of excellent posts on The New York Times Economix blog about the curious nature of human happiness.
Relationships are how we discover new ideas, understand our world and ultimately derive long-term happiness.
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Timo Weiland has long been the darling of New York fashion people who love the line for its straightforward sense of happiness and casual textural details.
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More and more people are deciding they don't have to reside in high-pressured, highly expensive areas such as New York City or San Francisco in order to achieve personal and professional happiness.
Today, on the occasion of the first annual International Day of Happiness, brainstorming sessions ( pdf) are being held in New York, London, Tokyo, Bogota, Olso, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and San Francisco (afterward, people can host their own workshop).
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Public happiness, assessed by opinion polls, is being introduced as a new criterion for judging local leaders' suitability for promotion.
Research shows that experiences bring people greater happiness than material possessions, partly because the thrill of buying something new wears pretty fast, whereas the memories of an experience last much longer.
They designed a life with new constraints that caused them to feel and act in ways they knew could produce happiness.
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"To think that I had some important role to play in taking Salford to a new arena that will be there for future generations fills me with a lot of happiness, " he said.
The bottom line: To achieve great things, you must posses the creative power of Eros, the passion for the good and beautiful the new and the exotic, the perfect and the immortal, the source of all our happiness.
Because the link between employee happiness and productivity is closely linked to how easy it is to use all their devices, the new CIO will actually play a role in the development of employee culture.
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