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Dr. Happy & Mr. Percival: The Happiness Handbook

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The Ideal Happy to Sad Ratio? 3:1, Says Dr. Happy

03 min 06 sec

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Timothy Sharp (a.k.a. Dr. Happy) crusades against the myth that negative emotions should be reduced or eliminated to achieve happiness.

Sharp approximates the ideal ratio of positive emotions and experiences to negative ones at 3:1.
Dr. Happy: Free Yourself from the 'Tyranny of When'

02 min 22 sec

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Why aren't people happier? Timothy Sharp (a.k.a. Dr. Happy) blames the "tyranny of when," or the idea that happiness will come after achieving some impending goal or milestone.

Sharp's remedy? "Get happy first," he says. "Don't wait until you've achieved something before you're happy."
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01 hr 47 min 15 sec

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GmoUnit

Posted: 09.04.10, 11:34 AM

fairly good video i remeber the choose acronym the most and think its kinda useful but that was hilarious that the percival guy went on for 30 minutes haha i just fast fowarded that but thats unfortunate that those people had to sit though that preformance aha

Lyle Ridings

Posted: 08.25.10, 08:30 AM

My, but he does talk a lot. And, says...nothing.

marcomauas

Posted: 08.25.10, 04:37 AM

"Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, ut quae sentias dicere licet". Rare the happiness of those times when we can feel what we want and say what we feel." (Tacitus, AD 56-AD 117). We are not in those times. We need the permission of Mr Happy to feel sadness, and we need even his explanations to know if it is called "normal". Is this an exercise in popular suggestion? Is this a sort of "global normalization"? No easy to say. I prefer Spinoza, because in his "Ethics", he tries to demonstrate that each one is each one, singular.