I am neither religious nor particularly spiritual (I have never attended a synagogue or chanted, for instance). And although I have lost a friend to Aids, I don't wear a coloured ribbon in my lapel or go in for the ostentatious displays of emotion recently labelled 'grief-late' by the think-tank Civitas. But the more I thought about Seligman's exercise, the more glaring the absence of philanthropy from my list became. Could the performance of a random act of kindness really raise my happiness level?
On the happy trail
An article well worth reading - On the happy trail (The Observer).
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