The psychology professor is smiling. It’s a warm day in Cambridge, the first in a while, and the sun coming in through the window shines off his endearingly bald head. “The Hair of the Man,” a poem celebrating the joys of baldness, decorates the wooden door to his corner office on the 14th floor of William James. Entering his office is not unlike asking him a question—the result is a stream of new ideas and unexpected discoveries. On the giant bulletin board, strands of jewel-toned Mardi Gras beads dangle over journal articles and newspaper clippings. Tucked among his framed photographs is a picture from his meeting with the Dalai Lama. Rows of uneven books, different sizes and colors, line his shelves, but many are translations of the same one: his New York Times-bestseller, “Stumbling on Happiness.”

Great observations on the site from Tal Ben-shahar and more.

” Quick, think of five things that make you happy.

Is one of them butter? What about bees? These were the thoughts that came to mind for John B. Pounders, a senior at the University of Alabama, and one of his happiness-seeking friends. Pounders’ joyful thought experiment, easily recognizable by graduates of Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology,” led to his latest Internet project: a positive psychology-based, online public forum allowing users to post five happy thoughts a day. “

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