Can you build... happiness?
How many people think of happiness this way, an afterthought once the day’s routine is over and you contemplate doing it all again tomorrow? Or do you spend money pursuing pleasure or time practising mindfulness or yoga? Most people crave happiness and others pursue it relentlessly as something that exists outside of themselves. Everyone has different triggers to elicit a sense of well being. So how do you define and measure such a subjective state?
Around 16 years ago Professor Martin Seligman developed positive psychology which set out to do just that, measure well being. For the previous 30 years of his career, he was the one who thought it was ‘the froth on the cappuccino’.
