Happiness fact 18: happyplanetindex.org

According to the happyplanetindex.org in 2014,
China reached 63.6
France:            78.1
UK:                 76.3
USA:               73.4

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Happiness fact 17: 0.79: the correlation between Meaning and Happiness

Meaning and Happiness

J. Coyne started by examining the correlation between these two subscales and it was r = 0.79, ( p < 0.0001). The high r is the higher the correlation.

This correlation is as high as the reliability of these two sub-scales allows, meaning they are essentially interchangeable and measure the same thing.

In simple words, add meaning to your life, define meaning in your terms, whether it is a charitable contribution, raising your children, inventing a new app or expressing yourself in blogs or paintings...
The more meaning, the more happiness in your life.

Source: James Coyne PhD, 2013

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Happiness fact 16: the 10% happiest have a rich and fulfilling social life

Marshall Brain took an unselected sample of 222 college students and measured happiness rigorously by using six different scales, then focused on the happiest 10%.

These "very happy" people differ markedly from average people and from unhappy people in one principle way: a rich and fulfilling social life.

The very happy people spent the least time alone (and the most time socializing), and they were rated highest on good relationships by themselves and by their friends.

All 22 members of the very happy group, except one, reported a current romantic partner.

Source: Marshall Brain, 2011

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Happiness fact 15: open plan offices reduce employee well-being by 32%

One study of 42,000 Americans found open plan offices reduced employee well-being 32 percent and productivity 15 percent.

Those in open offices cited a lack of "sound privacy" and lack of individual workspace as their major pain points.

Source: Warwick, 2014, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494413000340

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Happiness fact 14: 20% of us experience flow multiple times a day

Csikszentmihalyi determined that universally about 20 percent of us experience flow multiple times a day while 15 percent claim they never have this kind of experience.
One of his specific studies surveyed 6,469 people in Germany and concluded that 23 percent of people experience flow often, 40 percent experience it sometimes, 25 percent rarely experience flow moments, and 12 percent never do or do not know.
Another interesting research finding is that people who read books on a regular basis achieve flow twice as much as people that read occasionally or not at all.

Source: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, University of Chicago, US, 1997

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Happiness fact 13: the lower the income below $75K, the unhappier we feel

People say money doesn't buy happiness. Except, according to a new study from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, it sort of does — up to about $75,000 a year.
The lower a person's annual income falls below that benchmark, the unhappier he or she feels.
But no matter how much more than $75,000 people make, they don't report any greater degree of happiness.

Source: Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, 2010

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Happiness fact 12: 70% of workers have "checked out" at their jobs

According to a Gallup survey in the US, 70% the proportion of workers who have "checked out" or "actively disengaged" at their jobs.

Source: Gallup Survey, 2013

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Happiness fact 11: 38% reported their life vision as "not very clear"

According to a survey from authentic-happiness.com with 1,800 respondents from around the world, 38% believe that their life vision is "not very clear". 51% rate it as pretty clear, while 11% state that they do not have a vision.

• Do you have a vision?
• Is it very clear and crisp in your mind?
• Have you ever tried to design a vision board or articulate your life vision on paper?
• Have you defined the sort of person you want to become?

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills.
Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get.
The major value in life is what you become.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."
Jim Rohn

Source: Authentic Happiness Score 2014 Survey

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Happiness fact 10: human happiness hits the lowest point around ages 40-42

The mid-life crisis is real, according to an Australian-led study of thousands of people in three countries.
Social economists from the University of Melbourne have found that happiness levels is the lowest in people aged 40 to 42.
"Human happiness hits the lowest point around the ages of 40 to 42," says Dr Cheng, who worked with colleagues from the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics.
"The jury's now in. People really do experience mid-life crises."
The study, which looks at decades of data from tens of thousands of people in Australia, Germany and Britain, has been published by the German-based Institute for the Study of Labour.
"What is interesting is the consistency of the results in all of the three countries we examined. Human happiness hits the lowest point around the ages of 40 to 42", Dr Cheng said.

Source: Terence C. Cheng Nattavudh Powdthavee Andrew J. Oswald, German-based Institute for the Study of Labour, 2014

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Happiness fact 9: happiness = 50% genetic+40% our activities+10% circumstance

Factors influencing chronic happiness levels:
- 50% Genetic Tendencies
- 40% Intentional Activities
- 10% Circumstance

Lyubomirsky suggests that 30-40% of the difference in happiness levels is due to genetics (i.e. heritable). In other words still, Diener says it makes no sense to say one person's happiness is "due 50% to genetics", but it does make sense to say one person's difference in happiness is 50% due to differences in their genetics (and the rest is due to behaviour and environment).

Source: Sonja Lyubomirsky, US, 2010

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