From: The Sydney Morning Herald
Happiness: surely that’s not all there is to the meaning of life
February 23, 2012
The Sydney Morning Herald:
How about the meaning of life? People forget relationships are the core of our wellbeing.
FED up with all the wrangling and speculation over who should be leading the Labor Party? Want something more substantial? How about the meaning of life?
The question has been an object of contemplation by clerics and philosophers throughout the ages, of course, but in more recent times many psychologists and even a few economists have taken to studying it.
For at least the past 30 years some psychologists and economists have been researching the nature of happiness. A spate of books has been written on the subject (including one by yours truly).
Read the whole story: The Sydney Morning Herald
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