![]() Students, faculty and staff voted to make “Health, Wellness and the Pursuit of Happiness” this year’s topic. Pete Morris, SMC geography instructor and faculty leader for the initiative, said its goal is to “engage students, faculty and staff in a wide range of activities and discussions regarding global affairs and the meanings and actions of citizenship in the 21st century.”įor the third time, a Global Citizenship theme was chosen, along with related books selected by the English department for inclusion in lectures. The initiative was formed by the Academic Senate and SMC superintendent and president Chui Tsang. SMC’s Global Citizenship initiative adopted the non-fiction book, along with the fiction book “Siddhartha” by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse, as the campus reads for 2012. This thought led to his New York Times bestseller “The Geography of Bliss,” which has been translated into 14 languages. “What if I spent a year travelling the world, seeking out not the miserable places, but the happiest ones? ” “I travel in the world an unhappy person, and I’m focusing on the least happy people in the least happy places, ” Weiner said, of his work as a foreign correspondent. “I woke up one morning, and had one of those light bulb moments where I thought, ‘What am I doing?’” Weiner said, during one of his two lectures at Santa Monica College on March 1. Wealthy people are happier than poor people, but only slightly.Įric Weiner illustrates these findings on happiness in his book, “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World.” Weiner, a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, former business reporter for The New York Times, and self-proclaimed “grump,” began travelling around the world in search of different cultural perceptions and pursuits of happiness. Busy people are happier than those who are not. People are least happy if they have to commute to work. Married people are happier than single people.
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