Happiness
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The fraud of happiness
Institutes and research centres that insist on happiness as a goal lure one into accepting the status quo on the basis of the fraudulent notion that happiness is possible. It is…
Happiness is too important to leave to chance
Newfound clarity on the important things in life has been hailed as a silver lining of this crisis. Planning a future around ‘purpose, passion and pay’ may be the key to having…
Why South Africa is sad – and getting sadder
War-torn Somalia spent more than two decades without a working Parliament, so why are Somalis happier than South Africans?
New ways of living give humanity a glimpse of a healthier and happier world
Political systems and profit motives make the world go round, but alternative thinking could turn the earth on its axis.
Any takers for minister of joy in SA?
Government’s services and policies are crucial, as evidenced by the UAE’s appointment of its first-ever minister of state for happiness.
Laughing all the way to happiness
Bill Gee has turned aerobic laughter into a science, offering dedicated wellbeing programmes at his Happiness University in Woodstock, Cape Town.
Forget your GDP, come on get happy
Bhutan shows us how to find a balance between development and a broader sense of wellbeing.
Happiness: how to find it
When we learn that household incomes have fallen for the first time in a generation, that radiation levels are rising in the seas off Japan.
The art of making happiness
Urban fantasy writer <b>Lauren Beukes</b>, author of Moxyland and Zoo City, dives into 2015 to find an artist that just wants to make us all smile.