A 2018 study identified among its participants two basic strategies for seeking happiness: one social and one individual. The study determined that people with goals of “seeing friends and family more, joining a nonprofit, or helping people in need” reported increased life satisfaction a year later. Those who focused on goals such as “staying healthy, finding a better job, or quitting smoking” reported no increase in life satisfaction. In fact, “the self-focused road to happiness was even less effective than having no plans for action at all.”100 Research consistently finds that social
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