My going on my trip benefited YOU.
It’s true.
Why?
Because it made me happy.
I just finished watching a PBS documentary tonight about happiness (you can download the movie instantly on Netflix).
What I discovered from watching this movie was that Harvard medical sociologists recently ended a 30-year study on happiness.
Their findings were not what they expected.
They spent 30 years tracking the happiness level of a group of people who had about 50,000 connections.
When members of the test group were happy they found that the vast majority of the 50,000 connections tended to be happier.
Then they went deeper into the study.
When one member of the group was happy, the group member’s friend was, on average, about 15.3% happier.
15.3%. That is a big increase.
But not only that…the friend-of-the-friend was 9.8% happier and the friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend was 5.6% happier.
All because of that first friend being happy.
3 degrees of separation and you’ve got happiness spreading faster than a virus.
Pass it on!
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I watched that PBS series and it was really interesting.