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your work, parenting, love and leisure and the meaningful life, which
“consists of knowing what your
highest strengths are, and using
them to belong to and in the service
of something larger than you are.”
After exploring what accounts
for ultimate satisfaction, Seligman
says he was surprised. The pursuit
of pleasure, research determined,
has hardly any contribution to a
lasting fulfillment. Instead, pleasure is “the whipped cream and the
cherry” that adds a certain sweetness to satisfactory lives founded
by the simultaneous pursuit of
meaning and engagement.
And while it might sound like
a big feat to tackle great concepts
like meaning and engagement
(pleasure sounded much more doable), happy people have habits you
can introduce into your everyday
life that may add to the bigger picture of bliss. Joyful folk have certain inclinations that add to their
pursuit of meaning — and motivate
them along the way.
They Surround Themselves
With Other Happy People.
Joy is contagious. Researchers of
the Framingham Heart Study who
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