Sunday, 17 May 2009

Happiness Part 3 - On reading 'Blink' by Malcolm Gladwell

I read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell this week, and it really helped me make sense of my life. In it, it mentions that there is a ratio for successful marriages of 5:1 positive feelings to negative feelings. This links to my first post on happiness, when I wondered if there was such a thing as a ratio.

Not only that, but there's a psychologist interviewed, Paul Ekman, who has said that smiling makes one happy when one smiles properly, using all of the muscles, and when one frowns of one's volition only, one can be sincerely unhappy physiologically speaking.

Sorry I've been internet mute this week, but I've been busy.

Part one Part two

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