Richard Hogan: The secret to being happy? Stop thinking about yourself

The antidote to stress, anxiety and depression is feeling connected to those around you, says Richard Hogan

Richard Hogan: If we want to be healthy and happy we have to root all of it in community

I have often wondered what it must have felt like to live through a World War. The sense of global uncertainty, watching the destruction of a generation and the potential for imminent obliteration relived only by the end of hostilities. 

Post-war Europe has intrigued me on many levels. Not least of all because of the generation that came out of the war. The babies of the second World War were the young adults of the ’60s. They were remarkably different from the generation of teenagers that went before. The war utterly changed everything. Last week had the feeling of the end of a war. There was a sense that we have come through the worst of this pandemic.