Wealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly.

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And our happiness is destroyed by these bad events like this.

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But then along come the holidays, imposing upon us once again a template for what happiness and interpersonal success is expected to look like.

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Happiness is a raw, human emotion not something that can be tracked like calories and purchases.

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No, the problem is the inherent fallibility of social science research and it's inability to quantify intangibles like happiness.

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