What Makes Us Happy?
From The Atlantic, June 2009:
“Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age.”
Joshua Wolf Shenk, the first journalist permitted access to this work, has written a moving piece. In it he offers glimpses of the full spectrum of human experience and emotion found in the pursuit of happiness.
Source: The Atlantic
