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How do you become happier?

Happiness practices, expectations, gratitude, stoicism.

Concept: choose to be satisfied

Answers by date: 3 records in 3 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2018), never reversed, in these records.

date who answer source
2024-05-18 Ali Ali calls the best advice he got recently the idea that no achievement you could reach will make you any happier than you are right now. The Best Advice I Received Lately 💭 00:00:00
2018-05-07 Ali Ali thinks that, for the most part, we can choose our feelings, which takes practice; he does not mean that someone with clinical depression should just man up. Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student 00:35:06
2018-03-21 Ali Ali says milestones such as 100,000 subscribers, a three-bedroom house, a raise or a million dollars never bring the promised happiness: in Miley Cyrus's words, it is about the climb, not the destination. Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! 00:13:55