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Optimizing for happiness
A route to greater happiness, for both day-to-day enjoyment and long-term fulfillment with who you are and where you are in life means doing more of the things you love and cutting back on the things you merely like.
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Doing what you love is mostly a choice
And it's almost completely in your control.
You can't fully avoid the things you have to do. But you can make adjustments to the things you slightly like or reduce guilt from the things you feel you should do.
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Doing what you love: what it takes
To do what you love, you have to have:
- Courage: the shoulds and socially-acceptable activities you merely like, often are the default, and doing what you love automatically makes you a bit weird.
- Discipline: our society is full of addictive ...
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Optimizing your environment for happiness
You can do several things to enjoy your life day-to-day. Positive psychology techniques of gratitude is generally a short-term solution.
More importantly is to optimize your environment so you're more likely to be happy long term.
What is happiness?
We all have our ideas about happiness and how to achieve happiness.
The main question is: Is it short term happiness? Or is it long term fulfillment?
Of course, we can enjoy the finer things in life, however, we should not forget long term happiness and ful...
Happiness: the sum of positive emotions
Even if you cannot change your broader environment, you can still do small things to create positive emotions.
- You can put pictures that trigger pleasant memories in your home where you pass often.
- Research shows that having green plants around is good.
- Cutting down...
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