defining happiness

How to Be Happy: 8 Life-Changing Tips from Happiness Experts

What makes us happy? Thirteen happiness experts, including psychologists, researchers, monks, and the inimitable Malcolm Gladwell, try to shed light on this surprisingly difficult question in a series of TED Talks about happiness. Over and over, the same two themes emerge. First, we’re usually wrong about wha will make us happy–or unhappy, for that matter. For example,…