Blue Monday

Today was supposedly the saddest day of the year. Considering that you've obviously survived it, you probably don't need lessons in happiness from the world's happiest man, but if you do, you'll need to free up a little time:

MRI scans showed that he and other long-term meditators - who had completed more than 10,000 hours each - experienced a huge level of "positive emotions" in the left pre-frontal cortex of the brain, which is associated with happiness. The right-hand side, which handles negative thoughts, is suppressed.

And work on becoming more left-brained.

For me, just knowing that all those preachy right-brained creative types are actually miserable makes me feel happier already. There's just something really right with a world where Einstein is likely to be a lot happier than, say, Alec Baldwin.