Happiness Maximising

Break the Hedonic Treadmill

There’s a lot of self-help advice around; most of it doesn’t help because it downplays biology and homeostasis. To some extent, whatever you do, you come back to your natural mood baseline with most happiness interventions, so get to the heart of lesser-known ways to actually improve your and/or your work team’s day-to-day mood.

As happiness is also quite a big predictor of success, this might also be one of the most neglected yet high-impact ways to improve your organisation’s effectiveness.

Relevant Expertise

Beyond a natural interest in becoming happier, I developed a strong passion for evidence-based ways to achieve this, to help offset early negative experiences.

I’ve been a committed mindfulness/meditation practitioner since 2012 and have an interest in comparative meditation research. My postgraduate studies touched on comparisons of national happiness and (slightly more esoterically) I have written about the potential for AI to reach ‘compassionate’ negative utilitarian conclusions about human extinction (necessitating improved happiness to prevent this).