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Stop Chasing Happiness: 17 Alternative Ways to Live a Great Life
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Happiness comes a lot more easily when we stop thinking about it
Happiness is more like a place you occupy than an object you obtain. Some days you’ll be there and some days you wont, but the more time you spend thinking about being happy, the less likely you are to spend time being so.
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Sometimes a word can get overused and it becomes confusing
- Contentment
- Enjoyment
- Laughter
- Well-being
- Peace of mind
- Cheerfulness
- Playfulness
- Hopefulness
- Blessedness
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A lot of people that are searching for happiness will end up with “shiny object syndrome"
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We all need to learn to separate our happiness from our achievements
It’s okay to feel content with our lives simply because we have an inherent sense of self-worth. Reaching our goals can obviously bolster this feeling and give us a deep sense of accomplishment, but the absence of achievement should not mean the absence of happiness.
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Living with integrity
It's far better to be yourself and risk having people not like you than to suffer the stress and tension that comes from pretending to be someone you’re not, or professing to like something that yo...
People pleasing
It's the process of trying to guess what other people want and what will make them like us, and then acting accordingly.
It's actually a way of manipulating people's perceptions of us.
We're not that good at pretending
We don’t actually fool anyone when we're trying to look happy, but our real feelings are far from positive.
Our expressions expose us and are registered and mirrored by other people. So trying to suppress negative emotions actually increases stress levels of both people more than if we had shared our distress in the first place.
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Affective forecasting
It refers to how we predict our future emotions and how certain life events will affect them.
We’re generally pretty bad at it—and that impacts our productivity, our goal setting, and ...
We're bad at predicting our feelings
The main barriers to accurate affective forecasting:
- Impact Bias: Your tendency to overestimate the intensity and duration of future emotions.
- Projection Bias: However you feel in the present, you tend to project that onto the future.
- Focalism: When picturing an event in the future, you tend to focus only on that event, to the exclusion of everything else that may happen.