How happy are you with your life, and does it matter?
has become mandatory. As much as we are told that happiness is elusive, that we are pretty bad at predicting what will make us happy in the future, and that we overestimate how happy we used to be in the past, happiness remains a top priority and the most typical method people use to assess the quality of their life.
The second factor is a lot more influential and makes more sense. Your overall life satisfaction is to a large extent determined by your satisfaction in specific areas in your life. These domain-specific satisfaction ratings collectively influence your total satisfaction with life—and consequently the quality of your life. There is a caveat, however: What matters most for your overall life satisfaction is how satisfied you are in areas of your life that you deem more important.
Another way to look at these findings is that your life satisfaction depends on how much progress you are making on your most important life, your finances, your physical health, and so on. When you feel that your needs in each specific and important life domain are being met, you will feel better about your life overall.
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