Think Negatively!

So, you know that special brand of squelched eye-roll/mini-smirk you trot out whenever you find yourself cornered by your Positive Thinking-evangelizing sister/friend/coworker? Turns out, raining on her parade might be the best thing you can do for her. In a comical opinion piece in Sunday’s NYT that’ll make the cynic in you chuckle, Oliver Burkeman […]

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Gimme a Smile and Pass the Kool-Aid

Just when we thought it couldn’t get any weirder, there’s this: on-the-job happiness coaching. Kid you not. According to the Wall Street Journal, corralling employees in a conference room and showing them how to make happy is apparently the new black: Happiness coaching is seeping into the workplace. A growing number of employers, including UBS, […]

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Quick Hits for the Weekend

First, because we play fair in this space, a response to Barbara Ehrenreich’s commentary on the happiness gap — if you aren’t sick to death of it (FYI: we are) — from Justin Wolfers, one of the authors of the original study, in the New York Times. Read it here. Second, a piece from Bloomberg […]

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Newsflash: Gloria Steinem Did NOT Cause The Happiness Gap

Before we put the happiness gap to bed, here’s a fitting last word: some smoking-smart commentary from Barbara Ehrenreich I found on Mother Jones. The piece is entited “Are Women Getting Sadder? Or are we all just getting a lot more gullible?” That should tip you off. Ehrenreich’s essay echoes a few of the points […]

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There’s Nothing Wrong with Women: A Guest Post by Charlotta Kratz

Charlotta Kratz, a lecturer in the communication department at Santa Clara University, takes on Marcus Buckingham and the happiness gap and scores big. Maybe the study shows there’s nothing wrong with women whatsoever. Maybe it’s the culture. THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH WOMEN by Charlotta Kratz Marcus Buckingham has written three posts on Huffington Post recently, […]

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