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Does Happiness Undermine Success?

Are you content to postpone happiness to promote achievement?

By Christine Carter | February 4, 2013

Are you pushing your children to succeed? Or giving them skills for happiness? This short video explains how happiness can lead to success. We all know successful people who are NOT happy. But did you know that happy people are more likely to be successful?

© 2013 Christine Carter, Ph.D.

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Christine Carter

Christine Carter, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow at the Greater Good Science Center. She is the author of The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction (BenBella, 2020), The Sweet Spot: How to Accomplish More by Doing Less (Ballantine Books, 2015), and Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents (Random House, 2010). A former director of the GGSC, she served for many years as author of its parenting blog, Raising Happiness. Find out more about Christine here.

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