For decades now we’ve been inundated with self-help gurus telling us how happy we need to be. If you go to Amazon and type in “books on happiness” you’ll find 9,000 options to choose from. All of this focus and emphasis on attaining happiness can make you feel like a madman if, in fact, you don’t “feel happy”. But what if we’re trying TOO hard to be happy? What if we’re emphasizing happiness so much that we’re actually more unhappy than we would be otherwise. In this episode we look at the outcomes of 2 studies that show that we are, in fact, too focused on happiness. We talk about:
How pleasures can be punishments
What other emotions and feelings we also overemphasize
The one thing that is causing us to be unhappy
How to us the power of indifference to bring happiness into your life
The one question to ask yourself when you’re feeling too emotional
Much more!
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