It was a fine summer’s day when Sam and I waltzed onto the plane in top hats. Yes, actual top hats. On Ryanair. The cabin crew seem somewhat bewildered, but quite honestly I’m sure they’ve seen worse. The most common questions we got from fellow travellers were if we were lost magicians. Somewhat ironically, people […]
[This is the second of two articles on the relationship between happiness and money. The last covered whether money can buy happiness – we said ‘yes, with minor caveats’. This considers how to buy more happiness for your money.] Part of our frustration with the “can money buy happiness?” debate is that it obviously matters […]
People say ‘money can’t buy happiness’. Other people offer the reply that “the people who say ‘money can’t buy happiness’ just don’t know where to shop”. Our response is that money definitely can buy happiness. We think that’s so obvious it’s a boring question to ask. A better question is “how much happiness can money […]
This may sound like a faux-intellectual investigation of something that’s obvious. But when I tell people I’m a happiness researcher, sometimes people get this glint in their eyes, probably thinking they’re the first person to ask me: “What does ‘happiness’ even mean?”. I think this is an important, if unoriginal, question. Because one of the […]