The Nuance

Hard Work Is the Key to True Happiness (aka, Your Parents Were Right)

Scientists untangle the relationship between effort and emotional payoff

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readNov 29, 2019
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In his 2004 book Authentic Happiness, the University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman tells the story of a lizard that won’t eat.

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.