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The secret to happiness starts with a D

24 August 2014

''Lost happiness is lost for ever'' could be a slogan emblazoned on the favourite T-shirt of a pseudo-intellectual teenage poet, or the tag line of a deep-house club night in Dalston, east London. In fact, it's the life maxim of the prestigious behavioural scientist Professor Paul Dolan. Thanks to Dolan, it is a principle that reaches well beyond angsty teenagers: as a London School of Economics (LSE)academic, a former member of the Cabinet Office's ''nudge unit'' and part of the Office for National Statistics wellbeing team, Dolan guides public policy and the government's approach to happiness research. Now - happy news for the individual - Dolan, with his two diamante earrings in his left ear and trendy helping of stubble, has written a book, Happiness by Design, in which he explains why most of us are not as happy as we could be ... and how we can transform ourselves.

This article was published by the Sunday Times on August 24, 2014
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Related Links
Paul Dolan webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage

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