The recent Global Happiness Report shows why obsessing over GDP growth is misguided: countries with the highest happiness rankings (six European nations) trail the world in GDP growth, while high GDP growth nations (like China) lag in happiness. Malleret discusses why this is – and what matters more than economic growth.
Global Wellness Economy Monitor Press Release
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Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of March 28, 2017)
New World Happiness Report – “Where Are the Happiest Countries?” – CNN, March 21, 2017
The UN’s latest World Happiness Report was recently released, and Norway took the “world’s happiest country” honors for the first time with Nordic/Northern European nations cleaning up: Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland and the Netherlands took the next five spots. The World Happiness Report 2017 ranked 155 countries with six factors explaining much of the difference in happiness among countries. Key finding: social factors like community foundations and trust play an underappreciated role compared to per capita income. For instance, countries like China and the U.S., which have seen recent significant economic growth, saw their happiness scores decline.
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Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of January 4, 2017)
Why Time Management is Ruining Our Lives – The Guardian, December 22, 2016
All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed.
Mental Wellness Initiative Launches at GWI
The Global Wellness Institute has just launched an important new initiative on mental wellness. Its goal is to understand those pathways that help people thrive mentally as well as physically. This initiative will have a strong focus on collecting and communicating the clinical evidence for a wide range of mental, nutritional, and physical modalities that support lifelong growth of mental wellbeing and happiness, creativity and inner peace.
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Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of November 8, 2016)
“It’s Employment Status, Not Class, that Affects Mental Health” – The Conversation, September 30, 2016
An interesting insight…