Innovative experiments bringing together children and elders in care facilities show the enrichment of lives through shared experiences. The current risk aversion culture hinders such experiments, requiring significant effort to initiate. However, these experiments provide purpose and joy to the elders, contrasting with a life of solitude in front of screens. The emphasis should shift from closed doors for safety to open doors for meaningful connections, necessitating a reevaluation of the prevailing risk prevention culture.
There are certain nations which always top the rankings in the World Happiness Report. What are they doing right, that other countries are getting wrong? And what can you do to make your home country happier?
John Helliwell of the World Happiness Report explains how things like wealth, freedom and friendship combine to make a happy society - and how tiny changes in your home, neighborhood or workplace can have a huge national impact.
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