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How the happiest people in the world can teach you something other than happiness
For the fourth year in a row, Finland has been crowned the happiest country in the world. The list follows with Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
All this is based on the World Happiness Report, which in turn relies on the Gallup World Poll. If you think happiness is subjective and based on individual perspectives, think again.
The report assesses happiness, based on a set of measures including social support, individual freedom, gross domestic product, levels of corruption among others.
But the most interesting fact of this study is that people rate their own happiness. My question is how do you know that these people are happy and not content? A lot of people confuse happiness with just being content with what is.
I am very sceptical with the concept of attributing certain measures and defining that is what happiness means.
See I come from a tropical island, where people are mostly happy. Weather is fairly great all your around, winter is pretty mild.
A typical weekend activity is catching up at the beach over food after a swim. A snowstorm for us, is how Leonardo…
