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Key takeaways from The 6 Initial Scientific Discoveries About Happiness

Much of what we know about happiness stems from one study in 1969. Open at source

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we learned that any attempt to treat positive and negative emotions as endpoints on a single continuum is a mistake. We must study them separately and explore the interactive influence of positive and negative experiences
strongest predictors of positive experiences were making new friends, meeting new people, traveling far distances, and getting together with friends
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