Top Highlights

• By the end of the chapter, you will understand the nature of curiosity, the benefits linked to curiosity, and how curiosity is unique from other positive qualities and human strengths. You will become aware that even if you are not a very curious person now, it is a strength that we can develop.
• In a survey of more than 10,000 people from 48 countries, happiness was viewed as more important than success, intelligence, knowledge, maturity, wisdom,
• relationships, wealth, and meaning in life.
• Yet is happiness itself truly the thing, the goal, that we should constantly be seeking? Does the pursuit of happiness even work? Are we becoming happier? I would answer “no” to all of these questions and here’s why: We have been sold on the idea that being happy is the only or most important goal in life.
• While acknowledging the importance of happiness to creating a fulfilling life, when we focus on it, we lose out on the complexity of being human. We ignore the other important pieces of the puzzle, such as meaning in life, maturity, wisdom, and compassion. Happiness