Having read and discussed The Geography of Bliss, you might enjoy these videos on happiness:
Research in "positive psychology" has shown that people are surprisingly bad at predicting what will make them happiest. This lively psychology lecture given at Yale on what makes us happy is 34 minutes long if you start 11 minutes into the video and skip the last 2 minutes (for those of you short on time!) http://academicearth.org/lectures/the-good-life-happiness
Stumbling on Happiness, written by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert, was on the New York Times best-seller list in 2006. Here's a 21-minute video where Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? Video on TED.com. He addresses why our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with examples from his intriguing research.
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