How To Find Happiness In 2024

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Happiness, at the end of the day, is simple.

You do more of what you enjoy and less of what you do not enjoy.

That’s it; that is how you become happy.

There is just a few problems with this:

1. There are some things that you need to do, that you do not enjoy, to get to the things you do enjoy.
2. Sometimes you have to sacrifice something you would enjoy, for something you would enjoy more.
3. You may not know what you enjoy.
4. Other people will sometimes act against you to get to what they enjoy.
5. Life is chaotic and unfair, meaning your actions will not always result in what you expect to receive.
6. Happiness does not last forever. It is a constant work-in-progress. This means it takes consistent effort to achieve.
7. We change. What we enjoyed yesterday may therefore not be what we enjoy today.
8. There is no dichotomy of emotions; it’s not Happiness or everything else. All emotions require attention, even the negative ones.

With these subclauses, happiness may not be as easy to achieve as we may first think.

But the basics still remain. If you do more of what you enjoy, in spite of all of the problems, you…