Your happiness might be missing an ingredient

Arthur Brooks compares happiness to a diet that requires three components. Enjoyment allows you to savor; satisfaction recognizes an achievement or a good received; meaning answers why what you do is worth living. You can have plenty of fun and still feel empty because direction is missing. You can achieve goals without enjoying them. Or you can live with a great purpose and be so exhausted that you no longer receive any everyday good. It is not about measuring your mood with a perfect formula. The image helps diagnose with more precision. Instead of simply saying "I'm not happy," ask which dimension is neglected and what small change might be possible.