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The
Habits of
Supremely
Happy
People
BY KATE BRATSKEIR
HUFFINGTON
11.10.13
ARTIN SELIGMAN,
the father of positive
psychology, theorizes
that while 60 percent
of happiness is determined by our
genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us.
In his 2004 Ted Talk, Seligman
describes three different kinds of
happy lives: The pleasant life, in
which you fill your life with as many
pleasures as you can, the life of engagement, where you find a life in
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