Happiness for Beginners

by Katherine Center

The leaders of wolf packs may be the most aggressive and dominant, but the leaders of dog packs are invariably the dogs with the most friends.”

happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.”

Every night, you write down three good things that happened to you that day.”

“The things you think about determine the things you think about”—meaning the more you focus on something, the more likely your brain is to focus on it.

The most important thing to remember is that getting what you want doesn’t make you happy.” “It doesn’t?” I asked. “Not for long. Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.”