Escape the Happiness Trap

<p><em>Note: This is a rebroadcast. </em></p><p>Happiness is the subject of thousands of articles, podcasts, and scientific studies. Yet all this focus on happiness doesn’t seem to be making people any happier. In fact, the more they try to be happy, especially by fighting to get rid of bad feelings and cling to good ones, the more unhappy people often become.</p><p>My guest would say that the first step in escaping this negative cycle is redefining what happiness even means — thinking …