Deep Happiness

The opposite of Shallow Happiness. Find more on my article about Stolen Focus- Why You Can’t Pay Attention (Johann Hari).

Friendship is proofen to make us happy (see also What Makes a Happy Life), and to do that with even strangers, we can easily imitate that by asking deep question. E.g. this professor uses these questions:

Source: Freundschafts-Formel: Was uns wirklich verbindet - Einstein - Play SRF

And the students, who never met each other, felt super connected to the stranger, and wanted to talk much more.

Conclusion: Deep conversations are connecting. Another reasons for avoiding small talk, whenever possible. Say hi to people on the street, it’s making us happy. Exactly what I wrote in Why are we here on Earth.

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