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HAPPY PEOPLE LIVE LONGER

It's Sunday.  Are you happy?  I asked Google Genesis about this. Ipsos Global Happiness Studies : Roughly 64% to 71% of adults globally report being generally happy or satisfied with their lives, with about 14% to 15%] describing themselves as "very happy". [ 1 , 2 ] Gallup World Poll / World Happiness Report: Rather than asking if people are constantly joyful, Gallup asks respondents to evaluate their current life on a scale from 0 to 10 (with global averages hovering around a score of 5.57 out of 10 ). Finland ranks as the overall happiest country with a score of 7.74 . [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] My sense of happiness is sinusoidal, keeps changing, jumping around from prolonged euphoria to a sense of doom.  However, compared to those around me, overall, I would place myself in that 14%s to 15% Ipsos category mentioned above as generally very happy.  In the Gallup World Poll, I would think that 7.74 would be about right for me, like the average for Finland, the happ...