What the world's happiest country can teach Americans. - NBCNewsBETTER
Otto Ponto / Lehtikuva via Reuters fileJohn Adams wrote that our “the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.", Founding Father Adams was pretty spot on in his description of happiness.
The report, produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network in partnership with the Ernesto Illy Foundation, using surveys from Gallup, ranks 156 countries using six variables: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom toIt’s woefully ironic that with so much emphasis on “freedom”, the U.S barely made it into the top 20 happiest countries, by this index, dragging in at number 19 .
It’s interesting that there is perceived or actual limitations here — that many Americans feel they don't have agency over their life — and it's deeply concerning. Catherine Shea, assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCatherine Shea , assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business who studies how people make decisions in varying states, and how macro-level issues affect individual behavior. “It’s interesting that there is perceived or actual limitations here — that many Americans feel they don't have agency over their life — and it's deeply concerning.”Finland came in at number one , followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and the Netherlands.
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