Pursuing happiness can be an unhappy effort


By AGENCY

Research has found that people take failure harder and tend to feel discouraged if their society places a premium on happiness. — dpa

Just be happy! You can if you want to – you just have to go for it, work at it, and work on yourself and your attitude, many a life coach has often said.

A multitude of self-help books and seminars purport to lay out a road map to what’s arguably the most desired destination of all: happiness.

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