‘Pollyanna’ tips to stay same are based on hard evidence - The Times 22nd October 2008

This is a typically ambitious project for Foresight. For a start, no other country, besides Bhutan, has ever considered the mental resource of its citizens in this way. The audience for Foresight’s science futures work is usually government policymakers, but this project has advice for individuals too, including its “five-a-day” for mental wellbeing. They might sound like pure Pollyanna; but they are based on evidence in a paper commissioned by Foresight from the New Economics Foundation.

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