What is a post-happiness way of living?... In my last blog post, I talked about my experience of two different modes of beings – the “control mode” and “conn...

Another week, another blog post. Let’s see if I can keep this up… As explained in my previous blog post, I've been reticent to write about the coronavirus pa...

Some personal reflections on my lockdown experience… So, this is my first blog post since lockdown. Which is kind of surprising, being someone who writes abo...

Rising up in the face of adversity is something we do together... It may not feel like it, but today is the International Day of Happiness. On 20th March, fo...

Why our survival depends on what the young and old have to say, and always has done Last month, the US Treasury Chief told youth climate activist Greta Thunb...

Why Blue Monday isn't all that bad... Apparently today is Blue Monday, which I didn’t know before going on Twitter (#MondayBlues). There’s no scientific basi...

Jeremy Corbyn, with his Labour manifesto for the upcoming election, are promising ‘real change’. According to the manifesto, the election is, above all, “the...

This is a guest blog I wrote for Transforming Society, which you can read on their website here It’s election time. You probably know who you’re going to vot...

This is a guest blog I wrote for Happy City, which you can read on their website here During my time as Head of Research and Development at Happy City, I hel...

What would it take to have honest and truthful political debate? Since the UK election leadership debate last night, there has been a lot of chat about wheth...

How can we think about our happiness without simply adding more items onto our already full to-do lists? And what are the costs of thinking about happiness i...

I'm back! And it's time to buy my book :-) So it’s been a while! I last posted a blog in August, saying that my aim was to continue posting regular blogs, bu...

This is just a quick update to say thanks to everyone for reading the blog so far, and that future posts are going to take a bit of a change in direction. Up...

How can we respond to the demands of happiness and unhappiness?… I have described the Happiness Problem in the following way: a) happiness and unhappiness, i...

Happiness needs a rebrand. Think happiness, think hunger… As well as writing about happiness, I talk to people about it. A lot. When describing the Happiness...

Can we at least predictably meet our needs for survival? Maybe not… The Happiness Problem is that we are motivated to predictably meet our needs even if doin...

What matters for happiness (and what matters more)… You may not know it, but the UK is leading the way in the world of wellbeing measurement. Since the forme...

How can we predictably meet our needs for connection? Maybe we can’t… The Happiness Problem stems from the fact that we are motivated to predictably meet our...

Happiness and unhappiness, in all its forms, is a major problem, for individuals, society and the planet… Everything I have written about so far in this blog...

How we feel — how we see ourselves, others, and our environment — is a product of our social context… In the previous post, I explained that our emotions and...