David Cameron measuring ‘wrong type of happiness’
David Cameron measuring ‘wrong type of happiness’ | Politics | guardian.co.uk.
Apparently the guy who influenced David Cameron to measure the nations happiness now thinks we should measure ’flourishing’ instead. This is a no brainer. Way, way back Aristotle had it right when he said that people need to flourish, to live the good life. Happiness is just a mood, an emotion and as such, passes. Flourishing is a state of life and may contain many different moods.
Maybe the shift to flourishing represents a welcome evolution from short term thinking to longer term thinking.
