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the happiness hypothesis

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Behavioral Science

What this book knows

Happiness is not found in external achievement but in aligning inner values, work, and attention against the brain's ancient fears.

Sex: Absent
Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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self-and-identity

External goals didn't help me become a better person. Only internal goals did.
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work-as-meaning

You always need to do something. Something different, something interesting, something you love. But you need an ikigai first.
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After years helping people lead businesses, something slowly dawned on me. Hardly anyone was happy.
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Overvalue yourself so you're spending time working only on things you enjoy. You have four hundred thousand waking hours in your life.
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mind-and-cognition

That fear is still programmed into our heads today. It's everywhere, it's between our ears, it's in our brains.
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Having more choice reduces our happiness. We get decision fatigue.
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