- http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/how_to_be_happy/#more
- http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory/transcript#t-948000
- summary: when measuring happiness, there is a big difference whether you are measuring the experiencing self, or the remembering self. The correlation is probably around 0.5. Different things make them happy; e.g. an unpleasant surgery is remembered as less unpleasant if the peak unpleasantness is not at the end, even if this draws out the surgery unnecessarily. E.g. Americans' experiencing happiness is unaffected by money after an income of $60/year, but their remembering happiness still is. Also, he messed up the wording here, but I think he said that remembered happiness is affected by goals and money, whereas experiencing happiness is dominated by being satisfied with people we like, spending time with people we like.
- http://www.liveyourlifewell.org/
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World Happiness Report, published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network:
The components of happiness:
- 29% income
- 29% social support (networks)
- 22% healthy life expectancy
- 11% personal freedom
- 7% generosity
- 3% perception of corruption
-- http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-03/the-uns-world-happiness-report-who-cheered-up
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