3 Things Happy People Don’t Do

And the secrets that joyful people use to find fulfillment

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According to The Pew Research Center, only about a third of people in the US state that they’re very happy. I think it can be assumed that far more people than that wish it were the case for them.

“Maybe we looked successful — displaying our status symbols like trophies on a shelf — but we weren’t truly successful because, even with all our stuff, we weren’t satisfied with our lives. We weren’t happy.” — The Minimalists

Most ads we see, watch, and interact with online throughout our day to day are all centered on one specific goal — making us happy, whatever that looks like.

The argument is made that if we just buy that new car, go to that new bookstore, own that new water bottle, or take that vacation with that particular company that we’ll finally have made it and achieve happiness.

Is that really how it works though?

While I’ve done a lot of research into what makes us happy and how we can get to that peak of human emotion and satisfaction, I think that it’s just as if not more helpful to look at what happy people…