Wellbeing without Art?

When I link to RSA, I usually have something to link that’s a talk, or one of the entertaining RSA animations, like this more recent Divided Brain one. Today, it’s merely this: the connection between art and wellbeing, explored here, and the point made at the end of the blog entry about measurability. While Marlow’s article in the Guardian suggests all sorts of projects that try or have tried to quantify happiness and to promote wellbeing, with this one to my mind being the most straightforward (and the questionnaire rather revealing, in the way of such things) , I can still hear Kathryn Ecclestone echoing John Stuart Mill, on whether asking the question “Are you happy?” adds much to an understanding of ourselves.  Of course this links to the post below on Flow and the TED talk from Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. So, to end, a final link: If you’re happy and you know it is an interesting overview of the notion of the pursuit of happiness.