{"id":340,"date":"2008-05-05T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T01:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2008-05-05T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T01:45:58","slug":"happiness-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Happiness (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can we fake happiness?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the excellent presentation by\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/97\" class=\"broken_link\">Dan Gilbert:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;psychological immune system&#8221; lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don&#8217;t go as planned. He calls this kind of happiness &#8220;synthetic happiness,&#8221; and he says it&#8217;s &#8220;every bit as real and enduring as the kind of happiness you stumble upon when you get exactly what you were aiming for.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to this article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,1721954,00.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re wired to be optimistic. Most people think they&#8217;re happier than most [other] people.&#8221; And even if you aren&#8217;t part of that lucky majority, Bates says, there&#8217;s always that other 50% of overall life satisfaction that, according to his research, is not genetically predetermined. To feel happier, he recommends mimicking the personality traits of those who\u00c2\u00a0<em>are<\/em>: Be social, even if it&#8217;s only with a few people; set achievable goals and work toward them; and concentrate on putting setbacks and worries in perspective. Don&#8217;t worry, as the saying goes. Be happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we fake happiness?\u00c2\u00a0 According to the excellent presentation by\u00c2\u00a0Dan Gilbert: Our &#8220;psychological immune system&#8221; lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don&#8217;t go as planned. He calls this kind of happiness &#8220;synthetic happiness,&#8221; and he says it&#8217;s &#8220;every bit as real and enduring as the kind of happiness you stumble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workvitamins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}