can we change our happiness?
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~the spirituality of leadership~
March 9, 2014
Can We Change Our Happiness?
1970s study of lottery winners…a year after their winthey weren’t any happier than people who didn’t win!...
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a happiness paradox?
the happy personwho has lostboth parents to Holocaust…
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a happiness paradox?
…But how can they be happy?...
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a happiness paradox?
…because to them,in light of their grave personal tragedy, they believe it would be wrong& selfish to be unhappy aboutall small trivial things…
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so where does ourhappiness come from?
10% - circumstances
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so where does our happiness come from?continued
40% - other (intentional activities, choices,mental/behavioural strategies)
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so where does our happiness come from?continued
50% - genetic
…this is what Sonja Lyubomirsky (Univ. of Calif. – Riverside, happiness researcher, psychologist) has found in her work
source: National Post, June 9/07