The Happiest Way to Change Jobs
How to rock your work rather than let the work rule you
How to Build a Life
A column about pointing yourself toward happiness
Don’t Avoid Romance
Nothing is healthier or more happy-making than loving attachment. Don’t deprive yourself.
Think About Your Death and Live Better
Contemplating your mortality might sound morbid, but it’s actually a key to happiness.
The Only Career Advice You’ll Ever Need
The contentment of being true to yourself comes through doing good work, and doing it with love.
Choose the Activism That Won’t Make You Miserable
The best way of trying to change the world is the one that will offer you happiness too.
What Rainn Wilson Knows About God
You might not think of going to the actor from The Office for spiritual guidance, but you really should.
Make Yourself Happy: Be Kind
How to break the negative feedback loop that can make us act mean
A Crucial Character Trait for Happiness
Don’t curb your enthusiasm.
The Not-So-Secret Key to Emotional Balance
Crying can help you keep your feelings in check. It’s also inextricably bound up in spirituality.
Parasocial Relationships Are Just Imaginary Friends for Adults
If you get too invested in a fake friendship, your real ones might suffer.
There’s Exactly One Good Reason to Buy a House
Owning a home won’t make you happy. Filling it with love will.
How Smart People Can Stop Being Miserable
Intelligence can make you happier, but only if you see it as more than a tool to get ahead.
Make a To-Don’t List
When you’re feeling stuck, focusing on the things you hate can help.
Nostalgia Is a Shield Against Unhappiness
Happy memories have a uniquely protective power against a sad present.
How to Find Joy in Your Sisyphean Existence
Life is full of boring, futile, absurd tasks. You’ll be happier if you can laugh at it all.
Happiness Is a Warm Coffee
All hail the miracle bean.
An Old Romantic Custom We Should Bring Back
The best gift you can give your Valentine is reading a poem out loud.
The Hidden Link Between Workaholism and Mental Health
Long hours on the job can temporarily ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety. But you’re better off leaving the office and facing your feelings head-on.
Nothing Drains You Like Mixed Emotions
Feeling conflicted can be even more distressing than feeling bad. Here’s how to manage it.
How We Learned to Be Lonely
In the early days of the pandemic, many of us got used to solitude. It’s a habit we need to break.
How to Make the Most of Bad Gifts
Presents are generally terrible, but they can still bring you joy.
Breakups Always Hurt, but You Can Shorten the Suffering
Three steps to get over your ex
Does Overindulgence Make You Happy?
Why we binge as a way of celebrating.
Meetings Are Miserable
One of the most straightforward paths to happiness at work is to fight against the scourge of time-consuming, unproductive meetings at every opportunity.
A New Formula for Happiness
The happiness we seek can require investing earlier than we think—and may help us align our expectations and reality at the end of life.
Marriage Is a Team Sport
Approach disagreements with your partner not as a “me,” but as a “we.”
The Right Choices in Parenting
When parents avoid the complexities of independent decision making, they may fail to understand where analysis remains crucial.
How to Love People Who Love Conspiracies
Fighting over the facts is unlikely to convince anyone.
Subtraction as a Solution
Subtraction can be an overlooked solution in a culture of accumulation. But having less can create the space we didn’t know we needed.
How to Make Life More Transcendent
Even if you’re not religious
How to Spend Time on What You Value
We use our time to race against the clock of productivity—which may be the one thing that holds us back from enjoying the free time we crave.
Envy, the Happiness Killer
Eradicating this ugly emotion entirely would be impossible, but we can stop fueling it with our behavior.
The Complexities of Human Love
Tech may not be responsible for all the woes of modern love and human connection—but it may reflect our innate desire to find simple solutions to complex problems.
If You Want Success, Pursue Happiness
Many people chase achievement, assuming it will lead to well-being. They should reverse that order of operations.
When Virtues Become Vices
When addictive behaviors override our desires, it may be a sign to investigate the gap between what we crave and what’s really good for us.
Why We Do Things We Know We’ll Regret
Our instincts often steer us to love things and use people. We need to do the opposite.
Technology Can Make Your Relationships Shallower
But it’s all in how you use it.
How To Season 3: When Expectations Don’t Meet Reality
The building blocks for realigning expectations and reality in happiness
Don’t Objectify Yourself
Thinking of yourself as an observer is better for your happiness than obsessing over being observed.