Happiness is as happiness does.
If they got it right, it's not money, popularity, or living in the lap of luxury. Not necessarily, Sheldon says. If their lives are only about staying beautiful, keeping in the public eye, and getting more money, then they are probably not happy, but if those goals are peripheral and they are also doing things that they like, they may be happy. In the course of conducting their study, Sheldon and colleagues asked hundreds of U.S. college students to name the most personally satisfying event they experienced during the past month. In a second study, the students were asked to name the most satisfying event of the past week.