{"id":3519,"date":"2017-07-22T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2017-12-04T17:07:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T01:07:29","slug":"8-life-changing-tips-happiness-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/8-life-changing-tips-happiness-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Be Happy: 8 Life-Changing Tips from Happiness Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What makes us happy? Thirteen happiness experts, including psychologists, researchers, monks, and the inimitable\u00a0Malcolm Gladwell, try to shed light on this surprisingly difficult question in a series of\u00a0TED Talks about happiness.<\/p>\n

Over and over, the same two themes emerge. First, we\u2019re usually wrong about wha will make us happy\u2013or unhappy, for that matter. For example, research has demonstrated that people who win the lottery are no happier about that event one year later than if they\u2019d lost the use of their legs instead. And second, happiness is largely a matter of choice. Which is good news,\u00a0because it means we can pretty much all be\u00a0happier\u00a0if we want to be.<\/p>\n

How can we make this happen? Here\u2019s some of what the TED speakers advise:<\/p>\n

1. Don\u2019t expect happiness to be one-size-fits-all.<\/h2>\n

In a fascinating bit of product history, Gladwell\u00a0recounts\u00a0how the food industry discovered to its astonishment that some people like chunky tomato sauce. And what that discovery means in a broader context\u2013that what makes me happy won\u2019t necessarily do it for you, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

2. Stop chasing things like success, fame, and money.<\/h2>\n

Or at least, keep chasing them but don\u2019t expect them to make you substantially happier than you are right now. As psychologist Dan Gilbert\u00a0explains, our brains have a defense mechanism that\u2019s hard-wired to make us happy with the lives we have, whatever those may be. Even Pete Best, a drummer best known for getting fired by the Beatles just before they hit it big, now says he wouldn\u2019t want it any other way.<\/p>\n

3. Keep challenging yourself.<\/h2>\n

If you love your work, you\u2019re good at it, and you\u2019ve been doing it for a while, you probably have experienced \u201cflow,\u201d that state where you get so lost in what you\u2019re doing that you forget yourself and everything else. That state of flow is\u00a0where true happiness lies, says psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and we can also find it when doing something creative, or even something recreational. But only so long as we keep challenging ourselves. Boredom is the opposite of flow.<\/p>\n

Read more HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By Minda Zetlin |\u00a0INC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: consciouslifenews.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What makes us happy? Thirteen happiness experts, including psychologists, researchers, monks, and the inimitable\u00a0Malcolm Gladwell, try to shed light on this surprisingly difficult question in a series of\u00a0TED Talks about happiness. Over and over, the same two themes emerge. First, we\u2019re usually wrong about wha will make us happy\u2013or unhappy, for that matter. For example,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,11],"tags":[779,80,104],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-energytransformation","category-inspiration","tag-defining-happiness","tag-happiness","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}