To Be More Resilient in a Crisis, Focus on Meaning, Not Happiness

Jessica Stillman
3 min readJan 13, 2021

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With the virus surging and political chaos filling the news, there are a lot of sad, stressed, exhausted people out there right now, pacing their homes wondering how to be happier. But is happiness the right goal to chase?

The first clue that the answer might be no comes from Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who has argued that most

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Jessica Stillman

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