Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

The perfect starting point for those first chords and riffs, an acoustic guitar will set you up for success and years of fun, providing the springboard to launch your guitar-playing career. An ...

The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.

Many of us aspire to be happier, yet few dedicate time to developing a scientific understanding of what happiness is and how they can attain more of it. Of course, philosophical debates about the ...

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Illustration by David Labrozzi. “Coyote Skull” by RISD Nature Lab is licensed under Creative Commons. Often, we can trace fundamental changes in cartridge composition to a single component. If ...

But for whom? For what? Perhaps, there is a belief that happiness lies just beyond your next achievement or acquisition. This relentless chase can become an obsession with “I” and “me”.

which doubles as one of the world’s largest collections of vintage electric guitar and acoustic guitar gear, amid the city’s ongoing wildfires. “It’s not in my hands anymore,” he wrote.

Whether it’s a budding plant, a new friendship, or a recent moment of wonder. Dacher Keltner is the host of The Science of Happiness podcast and is a co-instructor of the Greater Good Science Center’s ...

Though it was only noticed recently, the shift in the happiness trend began more than a decade ago, says Blanchflower. "The U-shaped curve was one of the most important patterns in social science ...

His guitar solos always blow me away, but don’t sleep on his chime-like cluster chord voicings, which reveal a kinship with the piano. (For more of his chordal playing, check out his 1962 solo ...