Roger Cohen in The New York Times, 2/12/2011, reported that the British government beginning immediately will regularly ask the following questions of people asking them to respond on a scale of 0 to 10: How happy did you feel yesterday? How anxious did you feel yesterday? How satisfied are you with your life nowadays? To what extent do you feel the things in your life are worthwhile?
The idea is to shift from the idea of financial prosperity to the idea of emotional prosperity. The G.E.P. - gross emotional prosperity rating. To put value on things that don't have a price tag - nature, relationships,
the transcendent power of the human spirit.
