| | If you have read you know all about the cortical lottery, happiness traps, and why happiness doesn’t just come from within. You know that you have to change the elephant and change your environment to change yourself. You know that happiness and meaning come from getting the right relationship between yourself and others, yourself and your work, and yourself and something larger than yourself. OK, so what exactly do you do now? How can you apply the ideas from the book to make yourself lastingly happier? (If you haven't yet read the book, the activities below should still make sense.)
You inherited a particular brain with a setpoint for an average happiness level (ch. 2). You are not doomed to live at your setpoint -- many other factors move your actual level of happiness up or down from your biological predisposition. But you do need to KNOW what your setpoint is, so you know which challenges you’ll face. And knowing your strengths will help you overcome these challenges. To Do: and register at the site, so that you can take personality tests and the site will remember your scores and show you how you compare to others. Keep going back to the "Test Center." .
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Happiness doesn't come entirely from within, but if you ever have to choose between changing your thinking or changing the world to make it conform to your wishes, be sure to choose the former. Particularly if you scored below average on the various happiness and optimism measures above, the odds are good that you'll benefit from some form of cognitive therapy. Even if you scored above average, you probably have some unhealthy thought patterns: are you very sensitive to rejection? Do you tend to hold on to anger? Do you ruminate about the things you should have said, and kick yourself for days over the things you did say? Cognitive therapy, meditation, and anti-depressant drugs all help you change your thoughts and reduce pessimism and rumination. To Do: by David Burns, or , by Marty Seligman. (For problems with anxiety, see " each time you have one. , . | | |
The theme that arose most often in my research for the book is that we need others to be happy. We were made for love, friendship, and family, and when we spend a lot of time alone, or free ourselves from the "constraints" of relationships, it is generally bad for us. Even introverts who think they want to spend a lot of time alone perk up and get happier when they are around other people (see chapters 2 and 6). So do a relatedness checkup: do you have at least a few people whom you care about, who care about you, and whom you see on a daily or weekly basis? Email and telephone count for a little, but they're not nearly as good as being physically together. Relationships must be nurtured and enjoyed, not just known about and filed away. To Do: | | | Work at its best is "love made visible," as Kahlil Gibran said (p.222). Are you doing your work with love, or out of duty or fear? Most people don't have the luxury of choosing a job for its spiritual satisfactions, but no matter what your work is (and that includes childrearing or being a full time student), you can take steps to make it more lovable, or to make yourself more loving. To Do: | | |
In the Happiness Hypothesis I suggested that we are, in a way, like bees: our lives only make full sense as members of a larger hive, or as cells in a larger body. Yet in our modern way of living we've busted out of the hive and flown out on our own, each one of us free to live as we please. Is it any wonder so many people ask "what's the point?" or "what is the meaning of life?" Most of us need to be part of a hive in some way, ideally a hive that has a clearly noble purpose. Religion, teaching, science, political campaigns.... these are some of the hives people seek to merge themselves into. The self is often a problem (Ch. 9); find ways to lose yours, rather than constantly celebrating or expressing it. To Do: : Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between. | | |  - Science & Math
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