The Road to Happiness Isn’t What You Think It Is

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Psychologists have long studied what makes people “happy.” The technical term is “subjective well-being” (SWB) or a person’s own opinion of how happy they are — and whose else’s opinion matters, really?So what did they find out makes people happiest? Winning the lottery? Early retirement? Lounging on the beach for weeks on end?Interestingly, no. According to Carleton University psychology professor Dr. Timothy A. Pychyl, writing in Psychology Today: The consensus based on the