I believe that happiness is a skill that can be learned. I’m not saying that if you learn to be happy, problems will stop jumping in to your life. I’m saying that you can learn to be happy no matter your place in life.
In “How To Win Friends & Influence People,” Dale Carnegie says:
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At the very beginning of “How to Win Friends & Influence People,” Dale Carnegie gives some very useful advice on how to study his book so that it can do the most good. It’s great advice that can be applied to any self-development work.
I’m just going to paraphrase his nine suggestions.

Get the desire. You’ve really [...]

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it. But why not begin on yourself?
-Dale Carnegie

The best place to look for change is within. It’s the only place where we can have total influence. And all of us have plenty [...]