Posts Tagged ‘“happiness research”’
Describe happiness question was unexpected to my interviewees
I spent at least 45 hours interviewing and transcribing the results in Microsoft OneNote (which is the best thing that happened to me as a tool, besides Microsoft Word) and I wanted the interviewee to focus on my questions, so I threw a question on them that they did not expect: “Describe what happiness means…
Read MoreWe have a provisional date for the upcoming book Rohkeasti maailmalle
I just returned from Finland and had a good meeting with my publisher Talentum. We agreed that the manuscript needs to be done by mid-February and the provisional publication month is May 2010. I am in the final process of interviews of many interesting emigrants and expats that want to share their story. These people include…
Read MoreThe Pursuit of Perfect
Today I have been proof-reading and working on the second chapter of my upcoming book Rohkeasti maailmalle. This chapter is about our careers, setting the goals of our careers and how to pursue happiness in anything we do in our lives. When researching in the topic, I run into one of my books (in my…
Read MoreDo you know when to give up even if you do not know if it is the right time?
I am sure that many of you work on things that you believe in, and at some point in time you have to decide that the right thing is to “let it go”. A good friend of mine gave me advice and told me that “Petri, a friend of mine told me that sometimes you need…
Read MoreBook review of Sonja Lyubomirsky’s “The How of Happiness”
I run into this book when doing research for my own upcoming book. I wanted to know what happiness was based on and this book had lots of recommendations in Amazon.com so I decided to go with the flow. I was not dissapointed. It explained to me perfectly how happiness is constructed, based on empirical…
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