Last week, I was sent an email from a “work-life balance expert” offering tips on staying cheerful in times of financial strife.
What struck me most about this message – apart from its trite fatuousness – was the assumption that we need cheering up when the economy is down.
I have never seen any evidence that happiness moves in tandem with economic activity. I’m no less happy now than I was in the boom of the mid-2000s. And if I am upset, it’s not because of the economy but because the ceiling has just fallen down in my hall and so there is grit in my bed and in the fridge.
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