Opinion Today: Our joyless quest for maximum happiness

The American obsession with individually defining and boosting happiness may be making us miserable. 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[A clay figure with a dozen yellow Post-it notes on it, each with a smiley face drawn on it.] Stephan Dybus [Author Headshot](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRomduDP0TBaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvamVzc2ljYS1ncm9zZT9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDI0MDgxMCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMzExMjImbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTc0NzczJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgpmq4NWt2aoViWQUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) By [Jessica Grose](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRomduDP0TBaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvamVzc2ljYS1ncm9zZT9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDI0MDgxMCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMzExMjImbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTc0NzczJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgpmq4NWt2aoViWQUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) Opinion Writer I’m someone who enjoys tracking my physical self: I aim for 10,000 steps a day and I work out with a heart rate monitor. But sometime last year, I started noticing that some of the apps that measure my physical fitness had added emotional tracking, too. These health apps weren’t content to simply record my flights of stairs climbed, they also wanted me to input my state of mind. They could ping me with alerts to ask about my daily moods and fleeting hourly feelings, fueled by the idea that by graphing my emotional life, I could figure out what makes me happiest. Tracking your emotions isn’t new, but smartphones have made the practice ubiquitous; app stores are overflowing with products claiming to maximize our bliss for a couple of bucks a month. But feelings aren’t the same as steps and heart rate and liver function. It turns out there is a great deal of disagreement on how even to measure happiness — and fairly weak evidence that doing so makes us significantly happier. Less considered is the question: Could tracking happiness make us feel worse? To attempt to find the answer, I tried the tracking apps myself, interviewed positive psychology researchers and historians of emotion (it’s a thing) and read many, many books. I also talked to a charming young man, who tracked his own feelings at 15-minute intervals for years, about what he gets out of the process. Can the search for meaning ultimately be found in a spreadsheet? [Read my essay](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRomduDP0TjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wOC8wOC9vcGluaW9uL2hhcHBpbmVzcy10cmFja2luZy1hbWVyaWNhLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyNDA4MTAmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTMxMTIyJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE3NDc3MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZquDVrdmqFYlkFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD) to find out. 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