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Working Your Way to Happiness

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Money Doesn't Buy a Lot of Happiness

If you're not making a living wage, more money will definitely improve your overall well being. But doubling or even tripling your salary won't have any effect on your emotions or your stress levels. Even the super rich can lead sad and lonely lives for the most part. Do what you do in order to earn a little bit more is putting your energy in the wrong direction. And it can have perverse effects in that if the amount of money you make starts to be the metric you use to evaluate whether you're successful or not,. It's the wrong metric....

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