HOW DO YOU GET FULL MARKS FOR HAPPINESS?

[neron]

The Impossibility of measuring such abstractions is proved by David Cameron himself.

To what extend do you feel the things you do in your life are worthwhile?

David Cameron was posed this question on TV last month, he gave himself full marks 10 out of 10.

One of the worthwhile things that he is now doing in his life is asking the same question of others.

From this month, the Gobernment's Household Survey will demand to know not only how much we earn but how

content we are. The Prime Minister wants to compile a "National Happiness Index" and he is not alone in

feeling that there are more ways to measure the health of the nation than economics.

"The time is ready for radical cultural change, away from a culture of selfishness and materialism "

says its founder the LSE Eco. Richard Layard, who points out that 50 years of economic growth have done

nothing for our happiness.

Happinees maybe less arbitrary a measure than economic growth but it is not necessarily the most desirable

alternative. Psychologist Adam Philips argues persuasively that children do not want solely to be happy:

they want first to be safe and then to be absorbed.

[witsd]

I get full marks for happiness by proof reading my posts for typos before I submit them.

[Tarot]

Yaawwwn,

[MrBen]

I don't think it's a boring question. Today's Guardian concluded, rather obviously, that it's not about the accumulation of stuff and money. And that once you earn over a certain amount any happiness increase is negligible. It's like, about how you connect with the people around you man.

[Annette Curtain]

Costa Rica is where i'm heading

Try looking here as we only score a lowly 74th

( probably definitely lower if you're a man u fan )

Here's a free :)) to be going on with.

Nette(tu)

[Tarot]

I was refering to Witsd post

;-)

[ianr]

> I get full marks for happiness by proof reading my posts for typos before I submit them.

I get nul points from having to read (incidentally, badly) copied/transcribed (incidentally, copyright) articles (such as this), presumably presented as discussion fodder.

OK, un point - for its not being from the Daily Mail.

[Annette Curtain]

ianr Wrote:

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> OK, un point - for its not being from the Daily

> Mail.

No.

Maxiumum .05 of a point as they're from the same stable, non?

N(!)