{"id":49,"date":"2008-03-12T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/?p=49"},"modified":"2020-08-11T01:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T01:40:37","slug":"the-pursuit-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/the-pursuit-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pursuit of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therealjobguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bigstockphoto_happy_2557147.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-featured-image wp-image-50\" title=\"bigstockphoto_happy_2557147.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therealjobguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bigstockphoto_happy_2557147-320x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bigstockphoto_happy_2557147-320x478.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bigstockphoto_happy_2557147-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bigstockphoto_happy_2557147.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dan Gilbert is a Harvard psychology professor who studies and teaches about happiness. What he&#8217;s discovered is that a lot of us have no idea how it works. What we think will make us happy does not.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us live an &#8220;if only&#8221; life&#8230;. thinking that if only a certain thing would happen, then we&#8217;d feel happy. But that&#8217;s not how it works at all, from a psychological or scientific perspective. In fact, there&#8217;s a lot more to it.<\/p>\n<p>So if you live your life thinking circumstances are what makes you feel a certain way, and you have thoughts like &#8220;if only I had a great job, I would be happy&#8221; or &#8220;if only I could meet the right person and fall in love, then I&#8217;d be happy, then you have to watch this talk.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well worth the jam-packed 22-minutes that it takes. You can see it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4q1dgn_C0AU\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Gilbert is a Harvard psychology professor who studies and teaches about happiness. What he&#8217;s discovered is that a lot of us have no idea how it works. What we think will make us happy does not. Many of us live an &#8220;if only&#8221; life&#8230;. thinking that if only a certain thing would happen, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-articles","category-inspiration-and-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejobsearchguru.com\/notesfrom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}