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Using Money to Buy Happiness
Scientific American: We live in America with two bits of contradictory received wisdom — that you’d be a lot better off if you made more money, and that money can’t buy you happiness. Now two
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Self-Disciplined People Are Happier (and Not as Deprived as You Think)
TIME: It’s easy to think of the highly self-disciplined as being miserable misers or uptight Puritans, but it turns out that exerting self-control can make you happier not only in the long run, but also
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You have more time than you think
CNN: June 21 is the longest day of the year. Yes, from now on, we’ll lose a few minutes of daylight each day. Before that panicked feeling of time slipping away kicks in (I already
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Happier Spending
The New York Times: SQUARE WALLET, an innovative new app, is changing the way we spend our money. Here’s how it works: you link your credit or debit card to the app, shop, take your
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Do Children Make Us Happy?
Pacific Standard: Several months ago, the novelist Zadie Smith wrote an essay for the New York Review of Books on joy, a complicated emotion that lies at the heart of parenting she argued. In the
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Why Wanting Expensive Things Makes Us So Much Happier Than Buying Them
The Atlantic: The idea that you can’t buy happiness has been exposed as a myth, over and over. Richer countries are happier than poor countries. Richer people within richer countries are happier, too. The evidence