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How to Be Happier: Five Sources of Everyday Unhappiness - and What to Do About Them

This week, the The No Cry Zone comes to you from somewhere between a soggy Scotland and the Faroe Islands — with an Irish pub, a little whisky research, an outbreak of singing, a new Brazen Candor song, and the usual questionable paraphrasing along the way.

But beneath the travelogue and humor is a serious question: What actually makes us unhappy?

Not tragedy. Not grief. Not clinical depression. We’re talking about the ordinary dissatisfaction, irritation, resentment, disappointment, and discontent that can quietly make life less enjoyable than it needs to be.

Jim identifies five major…

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