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10/29/2025

A Six-year Research Project Uncovered a Surprisingly Simple Route to Happiness

This "happiness hack" can lead you toward a life of purpose

How can we stay happy in an age gone mad?

It often feels as though all is unstable at the moment. Uncertainty dominates the economy. Our politics and planet are a mess. Scientific experts and government workers have been cast aside. Many more fear their jobs could be wiped out by artificial intelligence.

Little surprise then that historic levels of Americans report being depressed, anxious and lonely. Fewer say they are very satisfied with their lives than at any point since Gallup began asking the question a quarter-century ago. However, there may be a practical way to keep ourselves on a meaningful path — a sort of happiness hack for our chaotic times.

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