maybe you just don't have the genetics to be happy?
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not only downsides; lots of people have guilt or shame for not being as happy as they think they should be
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Happiness is moderately heritable. Quite a bit of research on this since the 1990s.
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Not something someone can know unless they do lots of experiments with potential ways of making themselves happy.
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if genetics helped this problem, good genes would enable people to avoid seeking happiness
