Matthieu Ricard “the world’s happiest man”? This millstone of a title –“a nonsense idea” Matthieu Ricard called it himself – attached to Ricard after he took part in a 2004 research project that analysed his brain as he meditated on compassion which was published in PNAS in 2004: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0407401101 source in the guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/18/the-worlds-happiest-man-matthieu-ricard-on-the-secrets-of-a-serene-successful-satisfying-life Matthieu …