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​Why We Should Pursue Happiness Together

By Tchiki Davis, MA, PhD
The research suggests we're more likely to boost our happiness if we do it with others. By getting a coach, friends, family or therapist to help us along, we can get where we want to go.
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With all these new happiness apps, and programs, and online courses, you'd think we'd all be happier. But we're not. Things like anxiety, depression, and burnout are on the rise. So what's going on? We've forgotten the most important thing: we need to do things together. 

We are happier when we build happiness together

Dr. Matt Killingsworth, founder of Track Your Happiness, has shown that we are happier doing just about everything when we do those things with others (with the exception of doing things with our boss :-)  ). So if we are working on boosting our happiness, we really should aim to do in social ways that make use of the additional boost we get from being with people, especially people we love

We are more accountable when we build happiness together

Another reason we need to purse happiness together is because other people hold us accountable. You know, like when you don't really want to go to the gym but you are meeting a friend there. You go anyway because you don't want to ditch them, right?

Systems like this also work for boosting happiness. By finding ways to practice happiness together, you make it more likely that you'll actually do it. For example, you could volunteer with friends, take a happiness program with your bestie, or go for nature walks in a group.

So how do you plan to pursue happiness together with other people?

Want to learn more? Here's a video on building happiness together

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