In today's episode, Courtney and Aubrey discuss the broad area of happiness, narrowed down specifically to concepts of happiness in the United States. Happiness is unpacked related to the country's history with "the pursuit of happiness", as well as how the word is related to our mental and physical health, economics, our comparison to other countries and a few personal anecdotal experiences. Please leave a review & subscribe! Contact us @structuresofself on IG :)
Resources:
Harvard Business Review Article:https://hbr.org/2012/01/the-history-of-happiness
UN's Human Development Report:http://www.hdr.undp.org/
Human Happiness Report:https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/
Living Longer & Happier Through Kindness Podcast
What Makes A Good Life TedTalk with Robert Waldinger:https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
The How Of Happiness by Sonya Lyubomirsky
Yale's Online Course on Well-Being:https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
Elements of a Sociological Contribution to Happiness Studies by David Bartram
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/10/07/americans-obsessed-with-their-own-happiness-overlook-the-key-ingredient-to-a-good-life/
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/heres-the-data-to-back-up-your-intuition-america-really-is-getting-less-happy.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/not-everyone-wants-to-be-happy/
https://fortune.com/2017/03/20/america-world-happiness-report/
Samuel, Lawrence R.. Happiness in America : A Cultural History, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central,
Diener, Ed, and Robert Biswas-Diener. Happiness : Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2008.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40544341/america-desperate-for-happiness-is-getting-less-and-less-happy
The myths of Happiness: What should make you happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t make you happy, but Does by Sonja Lyubomirsky
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America by Barbara Ehrenreich
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/heres-the-data-to-back-up-your-intuition-america-really-is-getting-less-happy.html
