welcome back to all the parts that mike viking feel. of the happiness research institute and bestselling author mike before the break we talked about the various institutional factors that happen is but they are not the only ones perhaps not even the most important ones people as you said before it can be very happy and very am happy under the same circumstances how much of a personal responsibility happened i think we should look at happiness the same way we look at health so how long you and i are going to live essentially depends on 3 categories it depends on our genetics we are predisposed to some diseases it depends on the countries we live in the cities we live in the quality of the health care you know the level of pollution in moscow in copenhagen and then thirdly it depends on the choices that you and i make on a daily basis do we exercise what is a diet we smoke do we drink and so on and i think it makes sense to look at happiness the same way so we also own more or less happy than the policies we live under the countries we li

world so preoccupied with it to discuss that i'm now joined by my viking see all of the happiness research institute and bestselling author mike it's good to talk to thank you very much for its time thanks for having now when the global interest in happened this week the few years ago with high level you are meeting on this subject it was presented as a new economic paradigm something that is more comprehensive than let's say g.d.p. you think the economic focus is really justified i think we should a new mission i mean g.d.p. per capita. wells which is an important indicator for progress but i think a lot of people globally feeling that we have gotten richer societies without necessarily getting happier and we need additional new measures of progress and wellbeing happiness quality of life might be one of them now but government's main purpose by default is to make people's lives better the great is good for the greatest number so if they're doing their work correctly they would be taking care of all this institutional factors wellbeing why do you want them to be engaged in the subject if personal aspect of happiness. policies