If You Want to Be Happy, Don’t Chase Happiness

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If You Want to Be Happy, Don’t Chase Happiness
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People who are able to accept their emotions, whatever they may be, are more likely to experience happiness over the long term. Here's why.

might be a permanent obstacle in your pursuit of it.

To explain this paradox, Zerwas cited a study where researchers showed one group of participants a fake newspaper article focused on happiness to induce valuing happiness while another group read about a topic unrelated to happiness. . People who take this approach view happiness as a very important goal. The study suggests that this tendency is relatively harmless.. People who take this approach tend to judge whether they are happy enough. It is this tendency, according to Zerwas, that gets in the way of attaining happiness by introducing negative feelings into the pursuit of happiness.

The extent to which an individual feels badly about their emotions while pursuing happiness matters. Typically, feeling bad about something can help motivate us to pursue ourmore successfully. For example, after getting a poor performance review, feeling bad can help motivate us to perform better in the future.

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