The Secret of Happiness

I loved Daniel Gilbert's book Stumbling on Happiness, a book I think everyone should read.

But for the time-crunched, or lazy, here's a short list on how to be happy (from Dan's TED talk in 2004):

The Secret of Happiness

1. Accrue wealth, power and prestige. Then lose it.
2. Spend as much of your life in prison as you possibly can.
3. Make someone else really, really rich.
4. Never ever join the Beatles.

The 22 minute video is worth watching: