{"id":10396,"date":"2013-01-05T12:39:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T11:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10396"},"modified":"2013-01-05T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T11:43:10","slug":"10-things-happy-people-do-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10396","title":{"rendered":"10 things happy people do differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American friend has drawn my attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/paula-davislaack\/happiness-tips_b_2325700.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&amp;utm_campaign=010413&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=BlogEntry&amp;utm_term=Daily%20Brief\">this interesting article<\/a> on the Huffington Post web site that identifies 10 factors in making for a happy life.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of sensible advice here which reflects some of the points I have made in my own essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Happy.html\">&#8220;How To Be Happy&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The is now a growing literature based on empirical studies of what makes people happy or at least happier. Some of the relevant books that I have read are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><strong>&#8220;Happiness&#8221;<\/strong> <\/strong>by Richard Layard (2005)<strong> &#8211; <\/strong>my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#Happiness\">here<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><strong><strong>&#8220;Counter Clockwise&#8221;<\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong>by Ellen J Langer (2009)<strong><strong> &#8211; <\/strong><\/strong>my review\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#CC\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong>&#8220;Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart&#8221;<\/strong> <\/strong>by Gordon Livingston (2004) &#8211; my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#TSO\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new year &#8211; time to be happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American friend has drawn my attention to this interesting article on the Huffington Post web site that identifies 10 factors in making for a happy life. There&#8217;s a lot of sensible advice here which reflects some of the points I have made in my own essay &#8220;How To Be Happy&#8221;. The is now a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10396"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10412,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions\/10412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}