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Old Happy: "I have to do what others expect.”
New Happy: “I need to do what’s right for me.”

There’s no shortage of opinions about what you should do or be or want or feel. They are worthy of consideration, of course; sometimes only other people can see what is in...


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Thanks to our brain’s negativity bias and Old Happy’s cultural conditioning, it’s all too easy to focus on what we don’t have: the promotion we haven’t gotten, the item we want to buy, or the ways in which we don’t feel good enough.

But studies show that the more you refocus your attention on...


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The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard famously wrote:

"It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards."

Later (also famously) adapted by Steve Jobs to become:

“Yo...


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If you're going through something difficult right now, here is something that I want you to remember:

This moment will not last forever. It will pass. Please keep believing that there are brighter days ahead. Right now, the bad days might be stacking up one on top of the other. I know that the...


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If you browse any corner of the motivational internet, you'll probably see one message repeated over and over again: You need to be consistent to achieve your goals.

This is not, actually, the key to achieving your goals.

If you want to achieve your goals, make them joyful. Make them fun. Make th...


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