Five Ways to Wellbeing

• Connect: because social relationships are the strongest part really of happiness and wellbeing
• Be active
• Take notice: noticing what’s going on around us and within us
• Keep learning: learning through your life course
• Give: volunteering, generosity, altruism are all really good for our own wellbeing as well as other people’s.

The other thing to frame it with is some work we did at the New Economics Foundation called the Five Ways to Wellbeing. This is something we did for the UK government office of science, their Foresight Project, which was basically trying to identify positive actions people could take to promote wellbeing. Like a piece of social marketing in a way, they’re an invitation into a wellbeing space. - Nic Marks