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Christine Carter: What are some common "happiness mistakes" we often make at this time of year, and how can we avoid them?
Three of the most common happiness traps ambition, doing what's expected of us, and working too hard seem productive on the surface but are harmful when taken to the extreme.
Throughout my 30-year career advising leaders of major businesses, governments, and NGOs around the globe, I've discovered that far too many of us fall into common "happiness traps"—destructive mindsets and ways of working that keep us stuck, unhappy, and ultimately less successful.
This dimension of common happiness appears to have receded or been wrecked by the violent path of contemporary history.
Here I attempt to rehabilitate the possibility of common happiness through the exploration of the work of Roland Barthes and of the contemporary poet and novelist Ben Lerner.
In particular, we can reconstruct from their writing the possibility of neurosis as the means to access the problem of common happiness.
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Some of the most common of these "happiness traps"—ambition (win at all costs); doing what's expected rather than what we want; and overwork seem productive on the surface but are harmful when taken to the extreme.
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