The 7 Principles of a Happy Life According to Psychological Research

Happiness researcher, Shawn Achor, breaks it all down.

It’s hard to measure happiness and success, since both of these concepts are wildly variable from person to person. Beyond that little hurdle, they are also intangible, since you can’t physically touch or quantify them and say “I have this much happiness”. It just doesn’t work that way.

However, as bad as that can seem, there’s also a hidden benefit to the intangible — you get to decide what it looks and feels like to you. You can also get started right away on improving your levels of happiness and success.

If you find you often default to a cynical viewpoint, these principles can help to rebalance and find your optimism. As he writes,

Let’s begin.

You might think I’ve made a typo there, but no, I haven’t. Most of us are trained to believe that we ‘become happy’ once we’ve found success (and the unit of measuring that success is often labelled “net worth”). But research Achor has done and reviewed for the book shows the opposite to be true. Happiness begets success.

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