Money buys happiness. That part is real — but it buys it on a curve that gets
steeper forever, which is why the chase never ends. In this video I'll walk you
through 10 habits that make you happier than money ever will, backed by the
longest study of human happiness ever conducted and the research that overturned
everything we thought we knew about income and wellbeing.

Stay for habit #10. It's the one that decides whether you actually use the other nine.


🧠 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Why the famous $75,000 happiness ceiling turned out to be wrong
The spending swap that beat buying things in a controlled experiment
What predicted health at 80 better than cholesterol did
Why relationships fade without anyone deciding to let them
The reason a good week can still leave you feeling behind
The one decision that makes every other habit on this list possible

📚 RESEARCH MENTIONED
Killingsworth, Kahneman & Mellers (2023), PNAS — Income and Emotional
 Well-Being: A Conflict Resolved
Whillans, Dunn, Smeets, Bekkers & Norton (2017), PNAS — Buying Time
 Promotes Happiness
Harvard Study of Adult Development (1938–present), dir. Robert Waldinger
Dunn, Aknin & Norton (2008), Science — and the 2022 replication that
 complicated it

💬 YOUR TURN
Which habit are you actually going to do this week? Drop the number below.

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