The Happiness Advantage

The Book in One Sentence

Success never leads to happiness, but happiness always leads to success.

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3 Big Ideas

1) Would you rather be happy or successful?

"For untold generations, we have been led to believe that happiness orbited around success.

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But now, thanks to breakthroughs in the burgeoning field of positive pyschology, we are learning the opposite is true.

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When we are happy-when our mindset and mood are positive-we are smarter, more motivated, and thus more successful.

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Happiness is the center, and success revolves around it."

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2) Only 10% of your happiness is based on external circumstances.

"Studies show our external circumstances predict only about 10 percent of our total happiness.

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To put it simply, our reality depends on how we view it."

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3) The easiest happiness habit to do is also the longest-lasting one.

"One study found that participants who wrote down 3 things each day for a week were happier and less depressed at the one-month, three month, and six-month follow ups.
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More amazing: Even after stopping the exercise, they remaining significantly happier and showed higher levels of optimism.