Forget What You Think Happiness Is

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Many people mistakenly equate happiness with uninterrupted joy—sunsets, home runs and chocolate cake—but researchers are exploring a more complex definition

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. A 2015 study found the risk of death was 14% higher among those who were not happy compared with those who were very happy. Happier people have greater earnings potential—earning 3% more—and are 12% more productive than less happy people, according to two studies.

Former Toronto Blue Jays player Joe Carter celebrates after a home run in the 1993 World Series. Many people mistakenly equate happiness with uninterrupted joy—sunsets, home runs and chocolate cake.For one thing, it isn’t sustainable, she says. Unpleasant emotions, like fear, anger and sadness—as long as they aren’t debilitating—help us avoid threats and harm and seek support. Genuinely happy people are emodiverse, she says, meaning they can manage all different emotions.

Mary Pipher, clinical psychologist and author of “Women Rowing North” and “Reviving Ophelia,” says the pandemic underscored what she long believed: that happiness is a choice and a skill. This past Christmas, she and her husband spent the day alone in their Lincoln, Neb., home, without family and friends, for the first time since their now adult children were born. “I thought, ‘What are we going to do?’ We went out for a walk on the prairie and saw buffalo.

Dr. Seligman expects those practices and interventions to spread to schools and workplaces in the next 10 years. Grade schools around the world are beginning to adopt a well-being curriculum, developed by the International Positive Education Network, which teaches critical thinking skills along with self-awareness.

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How can a person tell me what it is to be happy. I know what it is to be happy I don't need anyone to tell me what it is.

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Sounds like rewriting the measures for inflation to ensure there isn't any. Orwell came up with the concept first.

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Life is happy interludes and inevitable conclusions. All relationships end in death or dissolution, death is the happier ending. Enjoy the time that you have with the people you love!

Happiness is government. Government is happiness. Pass it onwards.

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