How do you become happy or content? For example, if life is

>>18608001
>How do you become happy or content?

Find what makes you happy. You want results? Understand that you can easily score small victories or work hard towards significant ones. Keep a varied rooster of both, and do what you enjoy.

>>18608001
Try random things and do them again if you liked them.

Try to avoid unsustainable (e.g. heroin, costs too much money and health, unsteady supply, probably illegal where you live) or hurtful to others things.

>>18608001
>For example, if life is always about living in the moment then i should just shoot heroin or bang hookers all day.
Yeah man, just like all the asian monks do

>>18608001
There are two reasons for doing anything. It makes you happy, or it is the down payment now for happiness in the future.

Enjoy the first group. Don't let them happen without your realizing. And remind yourself in the second group that if it (work, school, whatever) isn't fun now, it will pay off in the future.

And pause to smell the roses along the way. Some of life's greatest pleasures are the ones that just happen to you without planning.

I personally like camping, I find peace within myself and my depression has gotten better. Try different things and see if you like them

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>>18608001
There isn't a simple rule you could follow to become happy. The world is too complex to have one solution to everything.

You will feel happy, sad, angry and embarrassed many times in your life no matter how hard you decide to control yourself. Accept that. Give yourself permission to lose control sometimes. Don't be too hard on yourself.

>>18608001

everyone is different. different things make different people happy. you claim to be result oriented but then say 'i would not be happier if i got results (career, millions, a house

>>18608001
Learned optimism is the idea in positive psychology that a talent for joy, like any other, can be cultivated. It is contrasted with learned helplessness. Learning optimism is done by consciously challenging any negative self talk.

>joy, like any other, can be cultivated.
Maybe you are looking for this OP?

Now how do you do this?
Simple.
For anything that happens you say:
1.That has happened to me and not because of me(Even though that is not the case)
2.If I leave it as it is its going to go away by itself over time(Even though that is not the case)
3.If I leave it as it is not only is it going to go away by itself over time but it also wont affect other areas of my life(Even though that is not the case)
1.Is the concept of taking things personally
2.Is the concept of thinking things will be permanently so
3.Is the concept of thinking that a things are pervasive to other things in life

Good luck!