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Happiness Isn’t a Feeling—It’s Mental Work
One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned is this:
feeling good about yourself and the world has very little to do with “feeling” at all.
Happiness is not something that arrives one day and stays. It’s something you have to manage—every single day.
For me, the hardest trigger is social comparison. I look at others racing ahead with publications or chasing prestige. They look like hummingbirds—always buzzing, always visible, but rarely doing the deep work. Meanwhile, I do the work, I mentor, I care… but that doesn’t get rewarded the same way.
That’s when I have to reframe. I remind myself of the…
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