#139 Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
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How would you define happiness?
Happiness can be defined as a sense of being happy in your life and with your life./nBeing happy in your life means experiencing lots of positive emotions and relatively fewer negative emotions./nBeing happy with your life involves feeling satisfied and having a sense of purpose and meaning./nHappiness has both an emotional component (feeling happy in your life) and a cognitive component (thinking your life is pretty good)./nStrategies for increasing happiness focus on maximizing both the emotional and cognitive components simultaneously.
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