Tag Archives: Happiness

Altruism is contagious and might bring you happiness

Many studies clearly indicates that altruism is a key element of happiness. Many enterprises have understood this and have create corporate social responsability programs to support altruistic actions. If you should had the chance to win at the lottery, you’ll had better chances to be happy if you spend your money for others than yourself. Being empathic is a key factor of social success. In fact, taking care of each other is most likely to be deeply anchored in our nature. We are basicaly good people, we just need to let it be more often. And, best of all, it might be contagious.

We should continue to foster selflessness and good actions in our private as well as in our work life. Caring for people around us makes our lafes happier.

I found this beautiful video on YouTube. It is not clear if it is the official videoclip for the music of Noah & The Wale “Give a little love” but the music fit perfectly to the video and it is very inspirationnal.

Enjoy!

Pursuit of Perfect


Pursuit of Perfect” by Tal Ben-Shahar, the famous professor of the even more famous Harvard university that taught the largest course at Harvard on “Positive Psychology” and the third largest on “The Psychology of Leadership”—with a total of over 1,400 students. In this book Ben-Shahar explains how perfectionsim might prevent you to be happy in your work as well as private life and how sliding from perfectionism to optimalism might bring you happiness and success.