There are two popular conceptions of happiness in psychology, hedonic and eudaimonic.

• You experience hedonic happiness through pleasure and enjoyment, like when scarfing down your favorite dessert, watching your beloved sports team win a big g...

1. Both eudaimonic and hedonic happiness contribute to overall life satisfaction, but eudaimonic seems to provide a far more sustained effect.
2. That's because hedonic forms of happiness tend to provide only fleeting...

1. Another fascinating physiological difference between eudaimonic and hedonic happiness may arise in the immune system.
2. In a 2013 study published to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, subjects who characterized their lives as having “a sense of d...

Both eudaimonic and hedonic happiness contribute to overall life satisfaction, but eudaimonic seems to provide a far more sustained effect.

That's because hedonic forms of happiness tend to provide only fleeting bursts...

There's a common perception that entrepreneurs and small business owners are overworked and stressed out. Both of those things can be true on occasion.

At the same time,

• 94% of small business owners say they are happy with their lives, and
• 81% ...

1. Again, all this isn't to say that hedonic happiness is worthless.
2. For a quick, mood-boosting pick-me-up, partying with friends or playing hours of mindless video games is fantastic.
3. On the other hand, basing one's wellbeing purely around hedonic happiness