They expected that people in California would be happier because it is more sunny but they found that levels of happiness were exactly the same.

If it is sunny everyday you get used to it and the sunshine doesnt make you any happier.

Most of the time the weather doesnt affect out wellbeing at all. But when we think about it, and think that it does, thats when we get miserable.

In his new book, Happiness By Design Dolan argues that we can think ourselves happy by diverting our attention away from what makes us sad.

Most of our anxieties come from what might be, he argues, If you want to be happier pay attention to the things that make you feel good.

We also need to manage a reallocation of our time towards both pleasure and purpose.

Prof Dolan, who helped the Office for National Statistics come up with new measures for happiness and wellbeing, also claimed that a problem shared was not always a problem halved.

He argued that it was harmful to make people relive traumatic events through therapy, claiming that humans are actually very good at being able to get over tragedy and loss.

After a traumatic event there is an assumption that people are expecting a lot of support and, yes grief is there and they need help, he said.

But those interventions can be harmful. They actually lock in the emotions of the past.

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