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November 9, 2021
57° Is Just Fine
Arthur C. Brooks is a Bostonian who has has written an article for The Atlantic to try to convince himself (and others, I suppose) that the weather there is ideal and people should not be moving from there to warmer climates like, say, Desert Hot Springs, California. He has even found a study that claims 57° is the optimal outdoor temperature for happiness.
He is very, very, very wrong.
If all else fails, you can simply give up and decide to stop complaining. I have lived in sunny places (Boca Raton, Santa Monica, Barcelona) and gray places (Seattle, upstate New York) in roughly equal measure and have been keeping careful track of my happiness for decades. Despite it being a convenient grievance, the climate has not affected my well-being in any systematic way. Confronted by the data, I have simply given up whining about the Boston winters, and that has helped me like them better. I focus instead on the things I live here for, such as a university teaching job I love.
I wish we could get an objective measure of his "happiness." Sounds like depression to me. Brooks is "the William Henry Bloomberg professor of the practice of public leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School."
Filed under Coachella Valley | permalink | November 9, 2021 at 06:10 PM
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