What am I reading? The theme is "Social Networks and Happiness" and the article is found in "Edge: The Third Culture". By a couple of scientists who did a study which was published in the British Medical Journal. Here is the introduction:
"We found that social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy people within them that reach out to three degrees of separation. A person's happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends' friends, and their friends' friends' friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. We found that happy people tend to be located in the center of their social networks and to be located in large clusters of other happy people. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person's probability of being happy by about 9%."
Last night.
A cluster of happy chappies ran around the track last night enjoying the novelty events, the ten minute deluge, the prizes, the fun. We will rename the Turkey 1k race the "Goosey" after the first six places (at least!) were taken by speedygeese - a turkey event is where one has to guess one's time before racing. And the closest six were from our training group. Birthday girl Katie is not talking to Ken (or at least I her heard her telling him that) after Ken put in a devastating finish to cross the line with Gary and just pip Katie and John L by the narrowest of margins in the "Twosome 2k". Amanda ran a 20 second pb in the 1k and a 20 second pb in the 2k. We didn't see Santa this year; he must have got bogged when the storm hit.
Distance Run
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run..."
Yesterday I passed last year's total distance run. Good! That makes mehappy. Happier, even.
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"Happiness" is hanging out with happy people.
"We found that social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy people within them that reach out to three degrees of separation. A person's happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends' friends, and their friends' friends' friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. We found that happy people tend to be located in the center of their social networks and to be located in large clusters of other happy people. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person's probability of being happy by about 9%."
Last night.
A cluster of happy chappies ran around the track last night enjoying the novelty events, the ten minute deluge, the prizes, the fun. We will rename the Turkey 1k race the "Goosey" after the first six places (at least!) were taken by speedygeese - a turkey event is where one has to guess one's time before racing. And the closest six were from our training group. Birthday girl Katie is not talking to Ken (or at least I her heard her telling him that) after Ken put in a devastating finish to cross the line with Gary and just pip Katie and John L by the narrowest of margins in the "Twosome 2k". Amanda ran a 20 second pb in the 1k and a 20 second pb in the 2k. We didn't see Santa this year; he must have got bogged when the storm hit.
Distance Run
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run..."
Yesterday I passed last year's total distance run. Good! That makes me
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"Happiness" is hanging out with happy people.
