Solve for Happy Quotes by Mo Gawdat

Shawn Achor, a professor of positive psychology at Harvard, says, “What we’re finding is that it’s not necessarily the reality that shapes us but the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. If I know everything about your external world, I can only predict 10 percent of your long-term happiness. Ninety percent of yo

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...[E]veryone has at least one fear that rules their life and limits their freedom... When you find it difficult to admit your fears, ask yourself a different question: Are you free? This question helped me uncover my fears one by one ... At a fundamental level, many of us fear finding out who we really are and what about ourselves we need to fix.

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If there is one thing that will change your life forever, it is recognizing that the voice talking to you is not you! When you finally realize that you aren’t your thoughts, you’ll have seen through the most profound illusion of all: the Illusion of Thought... What Descartes should have said is: I am, therefore I think... You are the boss. You get

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For human beings, simply put, the default state is happiness... [A]s long as their most basic needs are met—no immediate hunger, no immediate fear, no scary isolation, no physical pain or enduring sleeplessness—they live in the moment, perfectly happy... All you needed was no reason to be unhappy. Which is another way of saying: Happiness is the ab

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Happiness happens when life seems to be going your way. You feel happy when life behaves the way you want it to. Not surprisingly, the opposite is also true: Unhappiness happens when your reality does not match your hopes and expectations... But here’s the tricky bit: it’s not the event that makes us unhappy; it’s the way we think about it that do

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