There was a great article about a 72-year study on happiness from Harvard a while back. I submitted it to HN back then and it will probably be of interest to the readers of this paper.<p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-us-happy/7439/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-mak...</a>
Looks interesting. I recently read about how to be happier on Less Wrong, it has quite few more tips:
<a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/bq0/be_happier/" rel="nofollow">http://lesswrong.com/lw/bq0/be_happier/</a>
The author of this release is James Montier. He writes about behavioral finance on his blog <a href="http://behaviouralinvesting.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://behaviouralinvesting.blogspot.com</a> and through his books. He's reached shown some very interesting human pitfalls in managing money.
Could not stop reading, good 6-pages.<p>Finally, an easy to understand algorithm for discovering happiness. Not easy to execute.
It states the obvious, but in a rational, nerd-compatible (VC-compatible) way.<p>Recommended reading.