happiness for purdue honors college

Happiness

To Your

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My path to…My path to…

cottage

cottage

industry

industry

mommom

mbamba

lawyerlawyer

director of

director of

sustainability

sustainability

sustainable

sustainable

seattle

seattle

happiness

happiness alliance

alliance

UNUN

Happiness Initiatives

Gross National

Happiness

- Material Wellbeing/Standard of Living

- Work

- Time Balance

- Arts & Culture

- Education

- Environment - Governance

- Health

- Community

- Social Support

- Affect (feelings)

- Satisfaction with Life - Psychological Wellbeing

Domain icons by Joumana Medlej at majnouna.com

personal happiness

& the connection to a new economic paradigm

What makes you happy?What makes you happy?guided exerciseguided exercise

10 in 30: 10 in 30: thingsthings

activitiesactivitiespeoplepeople

External HappinessExternal Happiness

Material Well-Being Material Well-Being

Meaningful WorkMeaningful Work

Family & FriendsFamily & Friends

Democratic ProcessDemocratic Process

Easterlin Paradox40 year study of nations across the globe

Up to a salary of $75K for family of four, long and short term happiness increases a lot with more money

After a salary of $75K, long term happiness increases are marginal or non-existent, short term increases in happiness do occur.

Does Gross Domestic Product make us happy?

GDP in the US has

more than tripled

since 1950s.

Adjusted per capita

GDP since 1960 has

doubled since 2010

Happiness has remained stagnant and even fallen

A New Economic Paradigm

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product

Jigme Singye Wangchuk King of Bhutan 1972

United KingdomUnited Kingdom FranceFrance CanadaCanada Brazil Brazil AustraliaAustralia ChinaChina USUS

UN Resolution Towards a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development

Internal Happiness:Internal Happiness:

GratitudeGratitude

GivingGiving

Compassion Compassion

What is YourWhat is Your

Imagine happiness…

Gross Domestic ProductGross Domestic Product

What GDP counts:+ goods and services sold + oil spills, natural and manmade

disasters+ illness and death+ divorce+ accidents

What GDP does not count:- time with friends & family- volunteering, participating

in democratic process - gardening, educating

yourself - walking for exercise

the sum of all good and services produced in a year

Sustainability

Healthy Ecosystems

Social Justice

Economic Fairness

Happiness

& Wellbeing

Sustainability

Healthy Ecosystems

Social Justice

Economic Fairness

Happiness

& Wellbeing

GDP

Economic Growth

Wealth Accumulatio

n

Stuff & Status

GDP

Economic Growth

Wealth Accumulatio

n

Stuff & Status

Self-transcendence

Physical self

Extrinsic Intrinsic

Spirituality

Community

AffiliationSelf-acceptance

Physical healthSafetyHedonism

Financialsuccess

ImagePopularity

Conformity

From research by T. Kasser

Time Balance

In a typical week, how much of your time are you able to spend doing the kinds of things that you enjoy?

None of my timeNot much of my time

Some of my timeMost of my time

All of my time

Sick Leave Ordinances

City of San Francisco- Ch. 12W of SF Administrative Code in Paid Sick Leave Ordinance includes part time and temp workers

City of Seattle ordinance 123698 – municipal code for paid sick leave and paid safe time

Environment

How satisfied with you are the efforts being made to preserve the natural environment in your neighborhood.

Very dissatisfied

Dissatisfied

Neither Satisfied nor Dissatisfied

Satisfied

Very Satisfied

Bhutan’s Constitution: Preservation of the Natural Environment

60% natural habitat40% development

Bhutan’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy of 2010 - encourages the development of an environmentally friendly, sustainable economy

Pop-Up Parks

Material Well-being/Standard of Living

In general, how much stress do you feel about your personal finances?

Overwhelming stress

High stress

Moderate stress

Low stress

No stress at all

What you can doTake the GHN Index How Happy Are YOU?

Find out Use the GNH Index for your project, city,

community, campus or company

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