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Your happiness is like a rocking chair

9 mins | May 28, 2017
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Stuck at home: does everything, eventually, come into balance? Studies of people who have great and terrible things happen to them follow a curious pattern: Lottery winners are happier and people put in wheelchairs are sadder—but not for very long. After a few months, they return to whatever level of happiness they were at before.

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