Happiness is not dependent on External Factors: Scientific studies and amazing videos
If I were to tell you that paraplegics and lottery winners had no difference in happiness due to their calamity or fortune you will find it difficult to believe but it’s true. Let’s look at an important and startling study.
“In 1978, a trio of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Massachusetts attempted to look at what makes us happy by asking two very disparate groups about the happiness in their lives: recent winners of the Illinois State Lottery — whose prizes ranged from $50,000 to $1 million — and recent victims of catastrophic accidents, who were now paraplegic
11 terrific facts I have learnt in 100 days of early retirement experience : Joy Vs Job
Looking back I wonder if is it really been 100 days, seems like yesterday. I clearly remember walking out of my office on that last day of job. It was rather overwhelming experience and I felt as if I was walking away from all the 23 years of being a civil servant. Honestly I knew no other kind of professional life. I felt excited, uncertain, free and ready to be something else.
Since then each day has been an experience which I can recall. Every day I feel I have come closer to myself. I want to share the 11 fabulous must read things I have learnt from an early retirement experience