Some might find this video interesting: http://tinyurl.com/23b3r2

There has been a lot of scientific interest in the subject of happiness recently. With books like The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt and others on the market, the fruits of this sociological and psychological research has been made available to the lay-person.

The evidence backs up some conventional wisdom while some common sense turns out to be not so sensible or accurate... and some revelations turn out to be just plain weird or counter-intuitive. Paradoxically, some things that people think will make them unhappy actually turn out to bring them joy, and the other way around.