The Washington Post about a five-year study designed to figure out which human emotions were not only the most universal, but also the most important.
The researchers studied communities across the globe and concluded that contentment—not happiness—was the emotion societies valued most.“It is the highest achievement of human well-being, and it is what the greatest enlightened masters have been writing about for thousands for years,” the study author’s translator said of the emotion while the researchers were stationed in Bhutan.
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