Stevenson and Wolfers also find, a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income comparisons in determining happiness.

People don't care about the expensive clothes you wear, how big is the house you own or the car respect your achievements or possessions.

It doesn't matter your age how much money you have in your bank account, your marital status or what you do for a living more successful in our lives.

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents.

Harvard happiness expert Shawn Achor says just calling, emailing or texting a friend and putting an event on the calendar is more powerful than you think.