About a year ago I wrote about happiness
and what it is that makes us happy. It turns out that what makes us happy, what
motivates us, follows the philosophy of Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. We do
things for ourselves that help grow us and are important to us, we do things
that we have to struggle with to improve ourselves, and we do things that make
us part of a bigger world, and all of these three things have the capacity to
make us happy or happier.
I
wanted today to check, basically, how users of Google search for information
associated with happiness and depression. This is essentially search volume
index over time. As you can see above there is a fascinating convergence
between these two search volumes. As the search volume for Depression decreases
over time, the search volume for Happiness has increased to almost the same
volume matching Depression. Even when you ask Google to extrapolate these
trends (in dotted lines) the trend continues.
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