Cheers!

What better way to unwind after work, than with friends at the BrewDog? And then a meal at Mother India to follow...

Earlier, I had been reading an article in the Harvard Business Review that reminded me to take pleasure in just these kinds of things. The exchange between HBR's Gardiner Morse and Professor Daniel Gilbert sheds a lot of light on my psyche, and so I guess on humanity at large. It seems all the more real considering their final thoughts:


"The psychologist Ed Diener has a finding I really like. He essentially shows that the frequency of your positive experiences is a much better predictor of your happiness than is the intensity of your positive experiences. Somebody who has a dozen mildly nice things happen each day is likely to be happier than than somebody who has a single truly amazing thing happen. So wear comfortable shoes, give your wife a big kiss, sneak a French fry. It sounds like small stuff, and it is. But the small stuff matters.

We are learning and will continue to learn how to maximise our happiness. But that still leaves the big question: "What kind of happiness should we want"?

Science will soon be able to tell us how to live the lives we want, but it will never tell us the kind of lives we should want to live. That will be for us to decide."