Happiness is too important to leave to chance

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COMMENT: Newfound clarity on the important things in life has been hailed as a silver lining of this crisis. Planning a future around ‘purpose, passion and pay’ may be the key to having it all.

is a serious academic publication. It seems we all want to be happier, and there’s no shortage of experts and businesses lining up to help us., who teaches the happiness class at HBS, the pursuit of happiness can seem never-ending because of our propensity as humans to get used to circumstances quickly.

For Brooks, the real building blocks of happiness include family, career, friendships and faith . He believes these “tools” can be used to “construct a life that is balanced and full of meaning, and that serves your values”. Having come through months of enforced lockdown, many of us would now wholeheartedly agree.

Like any strategy, a life plan needs to be flexible. Advances in medical technology mean we will be living much longer . Longer lives means that the default template of study-work-family-retire needs to be thrown out. Instead, we’ll need to think about re-skilling, multiple career changes, taking sabbaticals, and more varied family arrangementshappy life, we’ll need to factor purpose and meaning into all these decisions.

 

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