Why happiness is overrated
Stuart Jeffries
July 11, 2006 08:00 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stuart_jeffries/2006/07/why_happiness_is_overrated.html
You can't move in Britain for people trying to make you happy. There is
David Cameron, the Conservative party leader, who will tell the Police
Foundation today that professionals should pay attention to the
emotional development of young people, and try to make them happy.
Then there is psychology professor Martin Seligman, from the University
of Pennsylvania, who has come over to train British teachers so that
they can give lessons in happiness. This follows an initiative at the
elite Wellington College earlier this year, where privileged students
were given lessons in positive psychology and the science of wellbeing.
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