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The big idea: What’s the real key to a fulfilling life?

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Social psychologist Andrew Hammond has dedicated his research career to a simple question: what makes for a good life, and how can we achieve it? He says happiness is easier to achieve if you don’t want too much of it.

Danes and Finns , who consistently rank among the happiest people in the world, say they’re content with what they have.

In her retirement, she drives part-time because she enjoys conversations with her customers, and it funds her annual travel abroad. In the end, perhaps no one said it better than Eleanor Roosevelt : “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear”. Shigehiro Oishi is professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and the author of Life in Three Dimensions ( Torva ). Further reading The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman (Vintage, 10.99 ).