Istupel Lucia Esupe Professor Ditch English 1144. 28 Febrwury 2019 c ‘Acting on Happiness [As a child, we oftea believe happiness is found in getting our way. When we grow olde. ‘we some to reslization that genuine happiness is not so simple to come across, We terd 19 focus om the cut-ceme, being happy, rather than the proses to achieve thal esting of ‘contentment ‘The journalist, David Trooks, often wates forthe options columm in the New York ‘Times und appears on All Things considered and PAS “NewHow" regularly. The author, Sonja Lyubormsty isa is an American professor in he Meparment of Psychology atthe University of California, Riverside. Brooks believes hat suffering is a part of schieving happiness, Grahara Hill isa Canadien journslst and the founder of of Treet Tugger. The authors, David Brooks, ‘Graharn Hill, and Sonja Lyubomisky, eryue tat happiness is met found in traditional formas but in unusual approaches such ws suflering, intentional activity and minimal worldly possessions. “The authors authors agree that happiness car be reached dhiough action vel they also disagres en ie right action take David Brooks believes that sulTering is apart of achieving happiness. Brocks clans “rhe suffering involved in their task becomes a fsanful git and very differom han that equal and colhcr git, uppinssn, conventionally defined" (287) Suffering is oferred to as 2 giftin serse ‘thal with stove can become # more “Vulnerable” and diferent person when suffcring. Someone sho is suffring is now Finding new limits throug suffering. [tis healing process beyors one’s conttel. Sulering is what helps scmeone achieve happiness no through susfering is vlf but< Istupe2 “Although suffering isnot thiongh the actions shat are tacea doffing end wller ones safer intentional, iis the action one takes 1p achieve the happiness they seck, Brooks gives the ‘example ofa arent losing thei child and stating a foundation. The parents action or the intentional activity” that he of she took is wit lead to his cr her happiness Sonja Lyubomirsky explains bow happiness i split inte thies sections, 49 9% of which is ‘xan in intentional activity. She states “In autskel, the foundation of happiness can be found fs how yo behave, what yo think, and wa! gouls you set everyday of your life, “There is no ‘happiness without action" (196) Her sxgument is that happiness is base on how one behaves ‘sod how one thnks, One canbe put trough the worst Mle event imaginable, but having & positive mentality aad having happy teushiss what is going fo imorove the situation they are in Also in the passage, she claims thet only 10% of happincts is bad on circumstances, yells prioritized. Humanities io lame the sition er han the aetons they have taken Wo Be where they cunrentiy stand in life. Lyaborninky demonstates that in order lo achieve happiness, ‘one should look Issa circumstances nel more on sit point nd intentional activity. The way ‘one thinks andthe daily goals one sets for ons selfiy what counts. The action that is tacen is ‘ te main impact on happiness. ( / ‘he writer, Graham Hill, claims his happiness was found through experiences rather tha mali belonging He gots on explaining that oven when he had the moncy, the big house, and ‘the electronics, he Was not content, was nol until he set them aside and started enjoying the Fie things that he found trae happiness “Intuitively, wo know thatthe best stuff im life isn / sulla all, end thatalationships, experiences and moaningfil werk ars the staples ofa happy {ige” (11) Hill also Mustating throughout He text chat he has esporisneed u life of both fused and lacked of money, and clans his life fele “bigger” when he had less; Explaining how Wis HfIsiupes ‘eltmore whele once he lt goof the acral tems tha were causing his unhappiness, The ation he chose o take wa letting go of mateval possessions and enjoying te experiences ke Ind in life sich a raveling ane the company of ators. twas thon when fe found happiness and ‘he thee authors, Davis Brooks, Graham His, and Sonja Lyubomirsky, have similar methods of achieving happiness. Brooks and Lyubomirsky mention how happiness docs not depend ona situation, The happiness they doseibe i hed on what one does with the situation and on the actlons one take, The con Brooks 5375 dhl sot bean spat ofthe healing proses in suffring. Lyubomirsky claims tht thc ction one takes s the 40% of achieving happiness. Hil sso explains how the happiness he was seting was found nol in an object ot possessions hatin exltcs in lif, Tho writer claims that he eajoys more in ifnow thet he has less in it All thre oF Un authors agree that happiness is (ound in your actions, The bappiness thoy Found would only be complete wi all bree methods. They are pieces of a whole [Although the suthore believe hit ation Lad to ppines, they disarce onthe right ‘ton that has to he taken inorder to acicve tht Ive! of eotentmacat, Brooks heieves sallerng isthe onfy way someone ean only achieve heppinsss. “They hur themselves deeper wad grateflinta thir ar, loved ones and commit (87) Lyubomirsky explains thal your curreut situation docs nol matter as mach as one beives, The only feetor thst should try be {aken ino account isthe Way you aporosch the situation and tae inletienal activity. Hill elsimas thar one can not be happy what their life i cuttered with unecessary items such as big houses and cloetronics Hill found his happiness in the small things in lif such as experiences and relationships. Ill els that others can find happiness If-dacy just It go.