The Happiness Myth: A Talk by Jennifer Michael Hecht
New Books in Psychology
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The Importance of Happiness
Happiness seems to me as normally been described as kind of an enduring state. It's quite compatible with the misery that all of us feel. Nobody can even know what has thought with feeling satisfied that you are living a good life, not being in terrible conflict with your own sadness. The question is don't end because what do you do with a year where you had some bliss? I was proving something existed that a lot of people said didn't. With doubt and with happiness both, of course I have the quandary of definition. But there's still something to talk about there.
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