You Cannot Will Your Way To Happiness — You Have To Actually Put In The Work

Thought Catalog
6 min readFeb 25, 2020
Maryia Plashchynskaya

The latest trend in pop psychology is preaching that happiness is a choice.

It’s about gratitude, many publications suggest.

It’s about accepting yourself as you are, others preach.

And there’s a certain extent of truth to these claims. Most of us are more fortunate than we tend to…

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