The Problem With Conditional Happiness

Stop seeing happiness as a series of if-then promises

Darius Foroux
Forge
Published in
2 min readJan 6, 2020

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I used to think of my happiness as a series of if-then promises: If I had a partner, then I’d be happy. If I made six figures, then I’d be happy. If I moved to a big city. If I had a packed social life.

It’s an easy, and common, assumption to make — that happiness will come when your…

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Darius Foroux
Forge
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