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The Pursuit of Happiness Part 3: Nine Factors That Impact Your Happiness

18th October 2020 by Larry G. Maguire 2 Comments

9 Factors That Impact Your Happiness

Welcome to part three of our exploration into the nature of happiness. In this article, we turn our attention to the psychology of happiness and findings by professor Peter Warr at the University of Sheffield. In his 2019 book of the same name, Warr draws on thousands of happiness and wellbeing studies to suggest nine primary environmental factors that impact your happiness. As we will see, many parallels can be drawn from the forthcoming with, for example…

The Pursuit of Happiness Part 2: The Focusing Illusion

4th October 2020 by Larry G. Maguire 4 Comments

The Focusing Illusion of Happiness

The Focusing Illusion bias and how it impacts our judgement of perceived life happiness and wellbeing. In part two of our continued exploration into the nature and substance of happiness, we explore what cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman called The Focusing Illusion. The Focusing Illusion suggests that these things we think and believe are so important, […]

The Pursuit of Happiness Part 1

27th September 2020 by Larry G. Maguire 2 Comments

The Pursuit of Happiness

An exploration into the phenomenon of happiness the dichotomous nature of the human condition. Over the next few weeks on Sunday Letters, we will explore the human pursuit of happiness, what it means, and whether or not we can indeed finally achieve it. We will examine its diametrical opposite, unhappiness, and try to understand how […]

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