As a psychiatrist, I’ve seen how chasing happiness leads to misery | Psyche Ideas
There’s a pervasive idea that the path to lasting happiness and fulfillment is to attain the outcomes we want. This theory has been tested by humanity for centuries and more recently by psychologists. The results are in: It doesn’t work.
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instagram.comThe single greatest enemy of contemporary satisfaction may be the belief in human perfectibility. We have been driven to collective rage through the apparently generous yet in reality devastating idea that it might be within our natural remit to be completely and enduringly happy.