6 Habits of Genuinely Happy People
Let’s take a look at the not-so-secret “secrets” of genuine happiness.
Everyone wants to know the secret to happiness.
That’s why self-help books promising to unlock the key to being happy are bestsellers year after year.
A “magic” formula. A complicated 10-step process. We’ve been led to believe that happiness is always just out of reach, waiting for us to complete a series of complex steps to attain it.
In reality, happiness isn’t nearly as elusive as you might think.
While I don’t have a magic formula to give you, I can tell you this: genuinely happy people tend to have some pretty awesome habits.
#1. They are “possibilists”
In his bestseller book, Factfulness, physician and academic Hans Rosling states:
“People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn’t know about. That makes me angry. I’m not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I’m a very serious “possibilist”.
Being a possibilist means you view the world through the lens of possibility…
