Science of Happiness

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I'm signed up for a new class -- The Science of Happiness.

This is my first non-Coursera MOOC.  This one is on EdX (which is the platform used by Harvard and Berkeley and I don't know who else).  The Science of Happiness is from Berkeley.

So far all I've heard about is the philosophy of happiness.  I've heard that there *is* a bunch of science, and they've told us that they're going to tell us about the science (one would hope so, given the course title), but they've started with philosophy.

Ok.....  I suppose we need to start somewhere.....


In any case, I thought this was an interesting quote:

“Anyone can become angry. That's easy. But to be angry at the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and the right way; that’s not within everybody's power, and that's not easy.” -- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

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