Many people assume the path to happiness is to want it and aim for it, but some research suggests the opposite can be the case — people who prized happiness most, or were nudged to, often felt less of it, especially when things were going well

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Here are two things that both seem obviously true. The more you want something, the harder you will work to get it. And the harder you work to get something, the more likely you are to have it. Put them together and this line writes itself: if you want to be happy, value happiness, aim [...] The post Many people assume the path to happiness is to want it and aim for it, but some research suggests the opposite can be the case — people who prized happiness most, or were nudged to, often felt less of it, especially when things were going well appeared first on Space Daily .