You don’t find happiness, you create it.
I’ve been digging into the work produced by positive psychology researchers lately.
I find it absolutely fascinating.
I read Success Principles by Jack Canfield in my second year of college. Ever since then, I’ve been a voracious reader of self-help books.
The relatively new field of positive psychology takes scientific research standards and applies them to the field of self-help.
In the past, self-proclaimed self-help experts taught strategies they either made up based on their own experiences or based on the experiences of the limited number of people they had worked with.
They didn’t try to isolate what really worked and what didn’t using the same rigor that prescription drugs go through in research trials.
Positive psychology researchers do.
At this point, I’ve read thousands of pages on positive psychology. I’m going to share some of what I consider the most interesting findings…
First, you don’t find happiness, you create it.