Jennifer Moss, best-selling author, speaker, and happiness researcher, says that some of the core lessons she’s taught throughout her career were wrong. Now, she’s sharing a new prescription ...

“Happiness is absolutely a choice, and every day I wake up and I think I’m very lucky to live the life I live,” said Zegler, 24, in a new i-D magazine cover-story interview.

For the longest time I thought happiness was a destination. I thought it was something I’d attain when I reached all of my goals and turned my dreams into a reality. I really believed I’d find ...

5 weeks to happiness? This online course is designed to reduce stress and boost satisfaction. A new study gives credence to the whole “happiness is a choice” mentality.

Acts of kindness make people happier than earning higher salaries, according to the World Happiness Report released on International Day of Happiness. About 70% of people worldwide performed at ...

The first World Happiness Report was a 170-page PDF with a chart that ranked countries by happiness. Denmark came in first, Finland second, Norway third. The United States was No. 11.

The notion of happiness as choice-making swiftly migrated from economic models into the marrow of the broader culture. What was once a lifelong project shrank into a sequence of transactions.

This happiness author used to claim happiness is a choice. Now she admits she was wrong. Alexa Mikhail. Updated May 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM. Copied ...

Step one in making the happiness choice was understanding what happiness actually is. And it’s a lot less complex than we make it to be. Two words: pleasure and purpose.