Six Degrees of Happiness is drawn from the huge database of 100,000 things to be happy about and plays off the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" and "Six Degrees of Separation" ideas. In "Six Degrees of Separation," if a person is one step away from each person he or she knows and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people he or she knows, then everyone is an average of six "steps" away from each person on Earth. The idea is extended here to happy thoughts and word-pictures, to show how unaware we are of the interconnectedness of everything.