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Your personal values influence your actions and consequently your life's outcomes. However, what is associated with success at the individual level isn't necessarily the same as what creates national success. Examining this issue with new datasets of unprecedented size, we reveal the relationships between what we want and what we get with some alarming conclusions to draw regarding the trajectory of many nations. https://theconversation.com/a-recipe-for-a-successful-nation-86516
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This is my largest and actually the world's largest study of its kind. I took a very, very long time to complete, over a decade, but it is also among my best work. I never expected how relevant it would be become when I first started the project as a much younger man. When we look at out into the political world we see today and how toxic it has become, we hope for better. I found that the successful nation has qualities from both the left and the right and the happiest people are those that value the contributions of others. There is a better way than seeing political sides as sports teams, where if one loses, the other wins. Actually, we can all lose and we can all win and each side has strengths it can contribute.
Piers Steel
University of Calgary
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This page is a summary of: The Happy Culture: A Theoretical, Meta-Analytic, and Empirical Review of the Relationship Between Culture and Wealth and Subjective Well-Being, Personality and Social Psychology Review, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1088868317721372.
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