Interview with Peter J. Levine
This is a syndicated article, all copyrights are enforceable and reproduction without permission is not allowed. Artist, philosopher and sometime interviewer Elizabeth Dee meets Peter Levine, author of The Mechanics of Happiness: Engineering a Positive Approach to Your Life. I’ve met some of the great polemicists, I’ve met some angry people and I’ve met social revolutionaries.... Read More
Oil, Gold, Potatoes, Happiness, Copper
image: thomas shahanWhat’s the odd one out? Oil, Gold, Potatoes, Happiness, Copper Yet a view seems to have developed that happiness is a commodity. The pursuit of happiness is enshrined as an inalienable right, like pursuing a rare and elusive bird of paradise, sometimes heard, seldom seen and sitting like a monarch perched on a raised dias composed of its own mythology. If you... Read More
Happiness on the brain
image: reigh leblancWhen I began this project a couple of years ago I thought that I had better familiarise myself with current thinking on happiness as it was the fundamental property I identified there to be deficit of in the way people live their lives at large. At large meaning not everyone, absolutely there are happy people, to quote REM there are even shiny, happy people but... Read More
