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Contentment over Happiness: Why It’s Better To Be Content Than Happy
Given an option, most people would pursue happiness? But, what if you pursue contentment rather than happiness? Contentment—the knowledge that things are OK exactly as they are, right now—is highly valued by many cultures.It was 2014, and my research team—including the GGSC’s —was studying a remote group of former nomads high in the Himalayas of Eastern Bhutan. This was a place that no outsider had ever traveled to before, and we were about to make first contact with one of the three last uncontacted villages on planet earth.