While we were out at Waukasha we spoke to David Lee again. One of the things he said that was very interesting is that one of the best predictors of a person’s health is the question “how are you feeling today?”
With that in mind I was super fascinated to learn about Track Your Happiness (via Enjoymentland). The site is part of some doctoral research coming out of Daniel Gilbert’s lab (Gilbert wrote Stumbling On Happiness). As the site explains:
Track Your Happiness.org is a new scientific research project that aims to use modern technology to help answer this age-old question. Using this site in conjunction with your iPhone, you can systematically track your happiness and find out what factors – for you personally – are associated with greater happiness. Your responses, along with those from other users of trackyourhappiness.org, will also help us learn more about the causes and correlates of happiness.
This is super interesting to me and starts towards making health a better game, which we’ve been talking lots about.