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The Best Advice I’ve Ever Heard for How to Be Happy - The New York Times

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I’ve talked to a former chief of the F.B.I.’s Crisis Negotiation Unit about how to defuse tension during family holidays. Emergency-room doctors about how to avoid accidents. A neuroscientist who studies dreams. As a writer for The New York Times’s Well section, I interview experts about health and wellness. Over the years, I’ve found that these conversations often contain useful, surprising kernels of advice about how to be happy — how to live a good, fulfilling life. So I collected the best pieces of advice from all my interviews. Some involve finding small opportunities for delight; some are about interacting with people; some are little exercises in gratitude. But these are the tips that have stuck with me most. Small rituals can add levity and meaning to daily life, said Michael Norton, a behavioral scientist and the author of “The Ritual Effect.” You can create one around almost anything, he said. His family does something they call “Happy Meatloaf to You.” It started when he had

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