"Warhol had a passion for perfume. In his memoir, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) (1975), he describes how he switched perfumes all the time to preserve memories attached to each scent. If I’ve been wearing one perfume for three months, I force myself to give it up, even if I still feel like wearing it, so whenever I smell it again it will always remind me of those three months. I never go back to wearing it again; it becomes part of my permanent smell collection"
"Last year, I bought two bottles of bubbly for each employee at the Happiness Research Institute and asked them to write down which milestones they would have to pass in order to open them. So far, we have toasted weddings, finished reports and surpassing our arch-enemy think tank in terms of followers on social media."
"HAPPY MEMORY TIP: COLLECT OBJECTS THAT ARE A MANIFESTATION OF YOUR STORIES"
"In 1996, Arthur Aron, professor in psychology at Stony Brook University, New York, came up with thirty-six questions that create intimacy between strangers – questions that would make people fall in love. Several of the questions revolve around our memories: What is your most treasured memory? What is your most terrible memory? Tell your life story in as much detail as possible in four minutes … What is the greatest accomplishment of your life? If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be? Share an embarrassing moment in your life … Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people’s childhood?"
"According to the inventor of the questions, ‘one key pattern associated with the development of close relationships among peers is sustained, escalating, reciprocal, personal self-disclosure’."