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Happiness

August 2024

  • Tom Daley sat with his Team GB teammates while knitting a jumper

    Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests

    Researchers say such activities could be important tool in improving public health

July 2024

  • a person holds a stack of hundred dollar bills

    Money can buy you happiness, says study suggesting more is more

  • George Harrison plays a toy trumpet, John Lennon holds a toy harp, Ringo Starr holds drum sticks and has a drum tied round his neck, and Paul McCartney plays the tambourine

    Put Sgt Pepper back in its sleeve – after 60 years, A Hard Day’s Night is still the Beatles at their joyful best

    Colin Fleming
  • Joel Snape working out, doing the ‘crab hold’ isometric exercise.

    Brief letters
    Now that’s not what I call a lazy journalist

  • The impossibility of putting a number on happiness is quickly revealed … Agent of Happiness.

    Agent of Happiness review – Bhutan surveyors attempt to analyse joy

  • Brief letters
    Up with the lark, but not by choice

  • The cult of 5am: is rising at dawn the secret of health and happiness?

June 2024

  • Julie Andrews in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins

    Why being perfect isn’t really worth it

  • Three young people smiling

    Euro visions
    ‘You can do anything here!’ Why Lithuania is the best place in the world to be young

  • Perfectionism – a kind of psychological fascism.

    How to build a better life
    I’m a recovering perfectionist. Here’s how I embraced the joy of ‘good enough’

  • An illustration of two yogis facing the sun

    Making sense of it
    Yes, praying and posing can bring joy – but true spirituality demands something more of us

    Jackie Bailey

April 2024

  • Tim Dowling at the Balloon Museum in London.

    Ball pits and bodacious pigs: my week in search of happiness and wonder

    I don’t want to be cynical or pessimistic, but it’s difficult in such gloomy times. Can I find a way to tap into my playful side?

March 2024

  • Person in gray suit holds small US flag

    US falls out of world’s top 20 happiest countries list for the first time ever

  • Illustration depicting young people affected by lack of skills training, affordable housing and social media

    World Happiness Report sounds alarm about the welfare of young people

  • Illustration shows a line of young people looking at their phones, with sad-face emojis behind them

    Young people becoming less happy than older generations, research shows

  • A ‘wheels for wellbeing’ ride in London

    Observer letters
    The key to happiness is equality

February 2024

  • Gapé Gakran and daughter in the Ibirama-La Klãnõ Indigenous land in southern Brazil

    Isolated Indigenous people as happy as wealthy western peers – study

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    The sting of losing an election hurts worse when it comes as a big surprise

    Torsten Bell

January 2024

  • Emma Beddington at home with a chicken on her shoulder.

    Can ‘micro-acts of joy’ make you happier? I tried them for seven days

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    We’re happy as children, but it’s all downhill from there until we’re pushing 60

    Torsten Bell
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