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The Longest Happiness Study in History

The Political Orphanage

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The Importance of Relationships in Happiness

In reading the book, my big takeaway that seemed to be brought home in every chapter was that relationships are very important. There's a psychologist named Sonia Lubamiersky who's actually quantified how much of our happiness is under our control. And she estimates that about half of ourappiness is inborn, temperamental and about 10% is due to our life circumstances right now.

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