Key to happiness - and it's not money!

WISH you had been the Irish winner of the €94m Euromillions lottery prize last week?

It’s not surprising — we’re a society that’s constantly led to believe more money instantly equals more happiness.

However, in their new book, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, psychologists Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton argue a different case, stating that after a fairly low threshold, more money does not improve our contentment levels. They claim that if we really want a life full of joy, we should change how spend the money that we do have, instead of trying to make more of it.