"Happiness is the emotional state of a happy person; it is the sense of well-being and fulfillment we experience when we achieve our goals, desires and purposes; it is an enduring moment of satisfaction, where there are no pressing needs, no tormenting suffering."(Significados.com)

During the month of January we will be working on happiness.

In this Happiness Kit, we recommend books, articles, videos and more, we hope you enjoy them!

TED Talks

You Don't Find Happiness, You Create It | Katarina Blom

The art and science of happiness | Arthur Brooks

Hi, I'm Scott | Scott Mescudi

What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

Happiness is not where you're looking

Podcasts

The Happiness Lab: Embracing Sadness in the Pursuit of Hapiness

We react to sadness in a variety of unhelpful ways. We try to suppress it. We experience guilt over it and apologise to the people around us for feeling it. We assume it means we've failed. We even fear it.But sadness will touch us all - and to be happier and more resilient we need to accept the emotion and work with it to make our lives better. Journalist Helen Russell (author of How to be Sad: Everything I've Learned About Getting Happier by Being Sad Better.) joins Dr Laurie Santos to explain why our view of sadness needs to be rehabilitated.Y

A New Formula for Happiness

We often follow a misguided formula for happiness—pushing us toward material wealth and other worldly successes. But when our expectations set us down the wrong path, it may be time to reorient ourselves around something new: universal happiness principles we can practice at any age.

Science-Based Tools for Increasing Happiness | Episode 98 - Huberman Lab

Huberman explains the science of happiness, including the different types of happiness and how our actions, circumstances and mindset control them. While it is difficult to standardize happiness from one person to the next, he outlines a structured framework of what is critical to increasing your innate “natural happiness,” including financial security, purposeful work and relationships, and he explains specific tools to increase internal happiness (so-called “synthetic happiness”).

Books

The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life

When he set out to visit all of the planet’s countries by age thirty-five, compulsive goal-seeker Chris Guillebeau never imagined that his journey’s biggest revelation would be how many people like himself exist—each pursuing a challenging quest. These quests are as diverse as humanity itself, involving exploration, the pursuit of athletic or artistic excellence, or battling against injustice and poverty. Everywhere that Chris visited he found ordinary people working toward extraordinary goals, making daily down payments on their dreams. These “questers” included a suburban mom pursuing a wildly ambitious culinary project, a DJ producing the world’s largest symphony, a young widower completing the tasks his wife would never accomplish—and scores of others writing themselves into the record books.

The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything=Have Everything

In his new book The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, you simply have yet to unlock the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret takes a piece out of the core of common sense, turns it on its head to present it in a completely new light, and then provides practical and specific guidelines for how to apply this new outlook to lead a fulfilling life.

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships--or, as they would say, because of them--they are two of the most joyful people on the planet.

Articles

How to Be Happy

Behavioral scientists have spent a lot of time studying what makes us happy (and what doesn’t). We know happiness can predict health and longevity, and happiness scales can be used to measure social progress and the success of public policies. But happiness isn’t something that just happens to you. Everyone has the power to make small changes in our behavior, our surroundings and our relationships that can help set us on course for a happier life.

What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

What is happiness?

It seems like an odd question, but is it? Do you know how to define happiness? Do you think happiness is the same thing to you as it is to others?

What’s the point of it all? Does it even make a difference in our lives?