How Happy Are You And Why By Sonja Lyubomirsky Summary

The Pie Chart describes the differences on how people are happy. “Most of us don’t need a definition of happiness because we instinctively know whether we are happy or not.” How Happy Are You And Why? By Sonja Lyubomirsky. So are you happy or not? No one knows if you are happy or not but yourself. “Happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events.” The Source of Happiness by The Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler. What this statement means is no matter what is going on around you it will not determine if you are happy. There are three points to the percentages on how people are differently happy. Fifty percent of people are genetically happy which say they come from genes. Ten percent is said to be accounted for various circumstantial variables such as economic status, relationship status, age, and your ethnicity. The rest of the forty percent is depended on intentional activities.
There is a fifty/fifty percent chance you'll be happy vs. unhappy. “The fact that fifty percent is a long way from a hundred percent and that leaves ample for improvement.” How Happy Are You and Why? By Sonja Lyubomirsky. What is being said here is you’re already halfway to being completely happy and there is always time for improvement along the way. The pie chart shows that another part of our happiness is based on our intentional activity. By intentional activity the author means that happiness is “a way of perceiving and approaching ourselves and the world in which we reside.” Forty percent has to do with how we view the world and how we deal with the issues that happen around us. The author states that you can be happy for the rest of your life by choosing to change your state of