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A year-long happiness experiment: Try one new thing a week (did it work?)
Nudge
28 minutes
3 months ago
A year-long happiness experiment: Try one new thing a week (did it work?)
This behavioural scientist spent one year doing a new thing every week.
He tried acupuncture, gambling, day-trading and dancing.
He visited Just Stop Oil meetups, cuddle workshops, and psychic readings.
He killed a chicken, drank breastmilk, and bungee jumped.
Did it make him happy? (And is there science to back up his ideas?
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Boothby, E. J., Clark, M. S., & Bargh, J. A. (2014). Shared experiences are amplified. Psychological Science, 25(12), 2209–2216.
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