Do you want to know what happy people do to be happy?

Check out this great article by Dr.Robert Biswas-Diener and Todd B. Kashdan

What Happy People Do Differently

One of life's sharpest paradoxes is that the key to satisfaction is doing things that feel risky, uncomfortable, and occasionally bad.

By Robert Biswas-Diener, Todd B. Kashdan, published on July 02, 2013 - last reviewed on July 08, 2013

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201306/what-happy-people-do-differently/the-surprising-key-satisfaction

".......The secret of happiness is a concern of growing importance in the modern era, as increased financial security has given many the time to focus on self-growth. No longer hunter-gatherers concerned with where to find the next kill, we worry instead about how to live our best lives. Happiness books have become a cottage industry; personal-development trainings are a bigger business than ever.

The pursuit of happiness is not uniquely American either—in a study of more than 10,000 participants from 48 countries, psychologists Ed Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia discovered that people from every corner of the globe rated happiness as being more important than other highly desirable personal outcomes, such as having meaning in life, becoming rich, and getting into heaven."

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