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21 Habits Of Supremely Happy People

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Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorizes that while 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us.

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3 kinds of happy lives

The pleasant life: you fill your life with as many pleasures as you can. This has hardly any contribution to lasting fulfilment.
The life of engagement, where you find a life in your work, parenting, love and leisure.
The meaningful life: knowing what your highest strengths are, and using them to belong to and in the service of something larger than you.

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Habits Of Supremely Happy People

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They surround themselves with other happy people.
They cultivate resilience.
They appreciate simple pleasures.
They devote some of their time to giving.
They get immersed in activities that bring joy.
They nix the small talk for deeper conversations.
They make a point to listen.
They look on the bright side.
They make exercise a priority.
They listen to good music.
They spend time in nature.
They laugh a lot.

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How Much of Your Happiness Is Under Your Control?

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Do you know the happiness pie chart? If you've read a book or listened to a talk about happiness in the past 15 years, there's a good chance you heard that 50 percent of our happiness is determined by our genes, 40 percent by our activities, and 10 percent by our life circumstances.

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The Happiness Pie Chart

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The Happiness Pie Chart, first published in 2005, states that 50% of our happiness is defined by our genes, 40% by our activities and 10% by our life circumstances.

Recent studie...

Give Yourself A Happiness Boost

Ways to give yourself a happiness boost:

Choosing activities that fit our personality and interests, feel natural, are enjoyable and aligned with our values.
Choosing meaningful and virtuous activities, instead of just going after pleasurable ones.
Practicing forgiveness and gratitude.
Trying to pursue a purpose.
Committing to new habits by making an effort.
Adding variety and diversity to our routine.

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Is positive psychology all it's cracked up to be?

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Part of The Happiness Issue of The Highlight , our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. The story of positive psychology starts, its founder often says, in 1997 in his rose garden. Martin Seligman had just been elected head of the American Psychological Association and was in search of a transformational theme for his presidency.

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The beginning of positive psychology

The story of positive psychology started just 20 years ago with Martin Seligman, head of the American Psychological Association. The idea he considered was: What if every perso...

Personal transformation

The term “positive psychology" was coined by Abraham Maslow in 1954. Martin Seligman used this term to promote personal change through the redemptive power of devotional practices like counting your blessings, gratitude, forgiveness, and meditation.

It is expressly designed to build moral character by cultivating the six virtues of wisdom, courage, justice, humanity, temperance, and transcendence.

Not a science

Martin Seligman insists on the value-neutral purity of the research on positive psychology. Yet even its fans say it seems to have some of the characteristics of a religion.

Philosophers such as Mike W. Martin say positive psychology has left the field of science and entered the realm of ethics. Science is a factual enterprise, not promoting particular values.

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7 Habits of Incredibly Happy People

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While happiness is defined by the individual, I've always felt it foolish to declare that nothing can be learned from observing the happiness of others. In our day-to-day lives it is easy to miss the forest for the trees and look over some of the smaller, simpler things that can disproportionally affect our happiness levels.

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Be Busy, But Not Rushed

Being “rushed” puts you on the fast track to being miserable.

Live a productive life at a comfortable pace. Learn to say no to busywork.

Have 5 Close Relationships

National surveys find that when someone claims to have 5 or more friends with whom they can discuss important problems, they are 60 percent more likely to say that they are ‘very happy’.
Excerpt from the book Finding Flow.

True friends really are worth their weight in gold. Check in regularly with close friends (around every two weeks).

Happiness And External Events

Self-esteem is good for confidence, but self-esteem that is bound to external success can be quite fickle.

Think of yourself less and avoid the trap of tying your self-worth to external signals.

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