Scientists have finally “discovered the key to happiness”, and it is not what you expected

Here is what is considered the key to happiness/freepik

Have you ever wondered what the secret to the best life is? Hold on to your hats, because scientists think they've figured it out!

Forget chasing the perfect body or a fat wad of cash. It turns out that everything depends on who you are deep down, writes Daily Star.

“It turns out that people's satisfaction with life depends even more on their personality than we thought.” – says Dr. René Mittus, a leading researcher from the University of Edinburgh.

Personality tends to be stable, gradually forming under the influence of thousands of impressions and genetic factors. So, the more satisfaction is associated with the personality, the less it is expected to respond to life's ebbs and flows.

Counting the numbers like no other, the experts took a deep dive into the lives of more than 20,000 people, taking into account many different factors, including career choices, finances, health, country, place of residence, relationships and even looks. The results were then compared with “informants” – or people close to them – to get the most reliable results.

And here's the thing: a whopping 80% of what makes people feel good about themselves in life depends on their personality. Get louder, extroverts, because if the experts are right, expressing your desires loud and clear may be the key to a top-notch life.

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Dr. Mittus continues, “In general, more satisfied people were more emotionally stable, extroverted, and conscientious. But more specifically, those who were satisfied with their lives felt clear, inspired, and determined, while less satisfied people felt felt envious, bored, used, incapable and unrewarded”.

Although the study focused mainly on the adult population of Estonia, the results appeared to be the same for different nationalities and groups of people. Satisfaction seems to fluctuate over time for many, but usually returns to a fairly stable level.

This wisdom is backed up by even 10 years of data showing that the connection between personality and happiness doesn't just fly by , and remains This is big news in scientific circles, as previous research may not have paid enough attention to how strongly our nature determines happiness.

This is not to say that experiences cannot have long-lasting effects on satisfaction with life, – stressed Dr. Mittus. – But when experience matters, it should shape a person much more than just making him more or less satisfied with life. It takes time, and it doesn't happen very often.

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