a post by Brian Lee for the Lifehack blog
A reminder: take what you like and leave the rest. Not all suggestions will be right for all individual people.
No one wants to be unhappy. We can mostly accept this as an universal truth. We often actively seek to avoid unhappiness even though it does come for all of us: breakups, school failings, disappointments in personal relationships, frustrations at work.
In the last 5-10 years especially, there’s been an increasing amount of discussion about happiness, the importance of happiness, how to seek happiness, where to locate happiness, and anything else you can think of. The self-help industry is massive – about $11 billion in the U.S. alone. When Disney modernized their theme parks a few years ago, they even called the project “reinventing happiness”. It’s on many minds, and you can find the topic in dozens of TED Talks.
This approach is problematic.
As writer Emily Esfahani Smith has pointed out in a TED Talk, the focus should be less on happiness and more on finding some degree of meaning in your life. Meaning is a mix of purpose and behaviors with intent; it’s akin to finding your passion and yourself.
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