Why Is It So Hard to Find Contentment?
<p>Americans really, really want to be happy. We spend lots of money on it, stockpiling a constant stream of self-help books that promise to help us find that elusive state: <em>The Happiness Advantage, The Happiness Hypothesis, The Happiness Trap, The Art of Happiness, The Happiness Project,</em> and on and on. We practice mindfulness, scribble in our gratitude journals, and engage in other forms of self-care in hopes that we can become, and stay, happy.</p>
<p>Despite the billions of dollars and zillions of hours we spend in pursuit of happiness, we don’t seem to be accomplishing much. In the <a href="https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/434/vshow" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">General Social Survey</a>, a long-running poll of Americans by social scientists, the percentage of Americans who call themselves “very happy” is trending downward and the number who say they’re “not too happy” is on the rise.</p>
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