Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.