Your Happiness Calendar for Educators for September 2025
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, cultivate empathy in yourself and your school community with daily tips from the Greater Good Science Center. Registration is now open for our 2025–2026 Greater Good Educators program! Join a community of educators from around […]
Your Happiness Calendar for Educators for August 2025
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, connect to your sense of purpose with daily tips from the Greater Good Science Center. Registration is now open for our 2025–2026 Greater Good Educators program! Join a community of educators from around the world […]
How Does Retirement Affect Our Health and Happiness?
While becoming unemployed can be a huge Mental health challenge, many of us assume that retirement—which also involves stopping or at least reducing work—will be the opposite. It’s pictured as a well-deserved time of leisure and relaxation, when we’ll get to do all the things we always wished we had time for. But is retirement […]
The Architect of Your Happiness
We are a goal-oriented society. We chase achievements with relentless dedication: the soulmate, the high-powered career, the enviable body, the life that looks perfect from the outside. We invest our time, our energy, and our hope in these external milestones, believing they are the bedrock of a happy life. But what if the key to […]
Study Reveals That Pets Bring Us $87,500 Worth of Happiness
A recent study published in Social Indicators Research suggests that having a pet can increase life satisfaction by 3 to 4 points on a 7-point scale. Even more eye-catching, the researchers estimate this happiness boost is equivalent to an extra $87,500 in annual income. In other words, they’re putting a dollar value on the joy […]
Your Happiness Calendar for Educators for May 2025
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you reconnect with the natural world and inspire wonder in your school community. We also invite you to join our free community meeting for educators in May as we welcome special guest John Muir Laws of the […]
World Happiness Report Highlights the Importance of…
Do you live in a kind community, a kind society, a kind country? This may be a fraught question for some of us today, as we see evidence of unkindness (and worse) in the news at every turn. But according to the World Happiness Report 2025, how benevolent our society is—and, separately, how benevolent we […]
How to Create Your Own Happiness Bubble in a World of Chaos
Source: Unsplash by Cacquie Nasciemento I recently had a session with a client who has struggled with debiliitating anxiety. When I asked him the standard how are you doing question, he responded with a big smile and said “I’m doing really well. I’m using all of my new skills and living in my own happiness […]
What Harry Styles Fans Taught Me About Happiness
For my daughter’s 15th birthday, I treated her to a Harry Styles concert. There I was, a dad surrounded by 15,000 giddy, elaborately dressed teenage girls in a sports stadium. You may smirk at the vision of a wizened professor in a sea of boas and sequins. But the experience shot through me, a neuroscientist […]
How Does Your Personality Affect Your Happiness?
Many of us don’t necessarily have the kind of lives we want. We may not enjoy intimate relationships, jobs that fulfill us, the ideal home, or enough income to do what we want to do. But do these circumstances dictate our happiness? According to a new study led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University and […]