LIFE, LONGEVITY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

Life and the Pursuit of Happiness

Humans strive for some kind of happiness in a world that is not conducive to it. As each human life is a collection of random thoughts, choices, experiences, memories, and their interpretations, a permanent state of vague happiness does not exist, since everything is temporary. The pursuit of happiness, or the pursuit of anything in life, does not lead to a permanent state or thing. One can onl...

Life, surgery, and the pursuit of happiness.

I am deeply grateful to all of you for the honor of serving as president of the Western Surgical Association. Simply said, from my residency at the University of Michigan, my professional career has been tied to this organization. My mentors at Michigan—Bill Fry, Jim Stanley, Tom Dent, Jerry Turcotte, and Norm Thompson—were proud and active members. I presented my first paper in 1975 at the Bro...

Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness,... and health care?

Life Satisfaction and the Pursuit of Happiness on Twitter

Life satisfaction refers to a somewhat stable cognitive assessment of one's own life. Life satisfaction is an important component of subjective well being, the scientific term for happiness. The other component is affect: the balance between the presence of positive and negative emotions in daily life. While affect has been studied using social media datasets (particularly from Twitter), life s...

The Pursuit of Happiness

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructiv...