Being happier might be easier than you think. Here’s what everyone needs to know about happiness, by Aditi_789
books and scam artists on the journey, it can seem more than a little suspicious that science could tell us anything about happiness that we don’t already know.
Psychologists are finding out, however, that the answers are simpler than we think. Simply surveying large numbers of people, asking them “What is it that makes you happy?”, and aggregating the data can give us useful insights into what makes us happy and what doesn’t. I, for one, learnt a lot as part of the research for this article. I’m not sure how much of a difference this will make to my overall happiness levels, but knowing the answers is only half the battle.
The second factor, and one that most of us tend to believe has a huge role to play in happiness, is our circumstances. We think “Oh, if I won the lottery, I would be so much happier!”, and conversely “I cannot even imagine having to live with a disability. That would make me so unhappy”. It turns out, though, that our circumstances affect our happiness levels far less than we think they do.
We have several tendencies that make us less happy than we ought to be. For one, humans are always comparing themselves with other people. For another, we also get used to material wealth very easily. The happiness that a new gadget gives wanes continually with time. I might have a burst of happiness the first few days of using my new phone, but there is then a sharp decline in happiness level.
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