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How to Build a Happy Life: Identify What You Enjoy

How to Know What’s Real

CHAPTER

The Science of Satisfaction

The secret to enduring satisfaction is not to have what you want, but to want what you have. The satisfizer is one who wants what she has, and the maximizer is the one who's always chasing,. trying to have what he wants. And if you can actually devise a wants management strategy, the denominator of that fraction is going to decrease, and your satisfaction is actually going to rise. I think it speaks to something in our culture, which as we don't really value what's important. We don't reallyvalue what's going to bring us happiness.

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