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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Sources:
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Boothby, E. J., Clark, M. S., & Bargh, J. A. (2014). Shared experiences are amplified. Psychological Science, 25(12), 2209–2216.
Van Boven, L., & Gilovich, T. (2003). To do or to have? That is the question. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(6), 1193–1202.
Yang, Y., Liu, R.-D., Ding, Y., Lin, J., Ding, Z., & Yang, X. (2024). Time distortion for short-form video users. Computers in Human Behavior, 150, 107192.
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