Mappiness
Happiness with Mappiness
Measuring happiness can be a difficult thing. Do you have an iphone or ipad? If you do, I urge you to download the free Mappiness app. I did just over a month ago and have found the results rather interesting.
Why should I do this?
You can gain detailed information about where and with whom you are the happiest. You also will be contributing to a research project for the London School of Economics.
How much time will this take?
Very little. You can download the app from Apple’s App Store and then it takes a couple of minutes to set up. You can set how many times a day you wish to give data so that it does not become intrusive. After a few days, you can look at graphs and charts that show you how happy you are and with whom and where you got that happy feeling. In addition, it can show you what you are doing that makes you happy. The results may be quite a surprise to you.
What is the point of this research?
They are particularly interested in how happiness is affected by people’s local environment — air pollution, noise, green spaces, and so on. This data from mappiness will be great for investigation into how we interact and affect each other. They hope to have results published in academic journals and elsewhere.
The research is currently only being compiled for the UK but anyone throughout the world can use the app. I suppose if there are enough users elsewhere, the research could continue for other countries.
Where can I find out more?
You can look at their website at http://www.mappiness.org.uk/ . There you can also find the Map showing the areas in the UK where people are the happiest with photos of the happy environment.
It is the brainchild of George MacKerron a researcher at the department of Geography and Environment at the LSE. Below there is a video of him speaking at TEDx in Brighton.
As a Cognitive Hypnotherapist, I believe that the results of this will help you and me as individuals but also could help the happiness of the country as a whole.
Please feel free to make any comments you have below or share with others on the social networks.
Anthony Hilling
Things always go wrong, but if
you want to feel excited about life again, you should check out the book
‘Feel The Magic’ — it’s got heaps of info about it in there!
Nice read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing some research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!