让我提升幸福感的七条准则

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Happiness is a paradoxical goal. We all want to be happy, yet we often fail spectacularly at predicting what will make us happy. 幸福是一个自相矛盾的目标。我们都想要幸福，但在预测什么能带给我们幸福上，却常常大败而归。 We pursue goals like wealth, fitness, status and mastery only to find that achieving them doesn’t really change our lives very much. In contrast, we often deliberately make ourselves miserable: we worry about things we cannot control, hold grudges against people we cannot influence, and spend time on activities we don’t truly value. 我们追求财富、健康、地位、卓越等目标，结果却发现，实现这些目标并不会真正给生活带来多大改变。相反，我们常常故意让自己痛苦：为无法控制的事情担心，对无法影响的人怀恨在心，在并不真正看重的事情上花费时间。 I don’t claim to have discovered the recipe for perpetual bliss, but from my decidedly unenlig ………………………………