How accurate is your Happiness Compass? Probably, not very accurate! This is according to psychologist William Van Gordon, who wrote about happiness in an article for Psychology Today. According to research, humans are very bad at knowing what’s good for us. We're going to teach you how to realign that wonky compass and get you feeling better about yourself.

LINKS

• Listen Sass and Something from our writer Amy Molloy
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• Read ‘How Accurate Is Your Happiness Compass?’ from Psychology Today
• Read more from William Van Gordon PHD at his website https://williamvangordon.com/ .
• Read ‘Why Our Choices Don't Matter as Much as We Think’ from HuffPost Life

CREDITS 
Host: Casey Donovan @caseydonovan88 
Writer: Amy Molloy @amymolloy 
Executive Producer: Anna Henvest 
Editor: Adrian Walton 

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