06. Being Happy
July 31st, 2005 by 
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Loading ...Happiness has three components: pleasure, engagement (depth of involvement with one’s family, work, romance and hobbies), and meaning (using your personal strengths to serve some larger end). Of those three, pleasure is the least consequential, and people who build their lives around pursuing pleasure may not generally end up satisfied with their lives.
A study from University of Minnesota under David Lykken in 1996 found that 50 percent of life’s satisfaction comes from genetic programming ( which influence such traits as having a sunny easygoing personality, dealing well with stress, or feeling low levels of anxiety and depression ), and only 8 percent comes from circumstantial factors like income, marital status, religion and education.
In short, we are happy not because of what happens to us, but rather on how we react to what happens to us. Within this context, it is our own determination to be happy that is key, and it is all within us to change our level of happiness.
It is not inevitable or your destiny to be unhappy.
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