[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 […]
RuPaul (a personal icon of mine) is famous for saying, “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” It’s catchy, it’s empowering, and it feels like a perfect summary of the modern wisdom towards improving your happiness. But today, I want to flip it. What if the path to […]
At the , we found some charities are hundreds or thousands of times more cost-effective than others. This means that we, the donors, are funding the wrong things. If the charity sector was full of organisations trying to ruthlessly improve the lives of their beneficiaries we would find much smaller gaps. So what’s wrong? […]
When it comes to doing good, where you give matters just as much as how much you give. With over a million charities competing for your support, choosing the right charity to donate to can feel overwhelming. But here’s the good news: with a little guidance, you can make your charity donation go dramatically further. In […]