Some people were assuming you can affect happiness if, for example, you picked the right goals, but there was all this literature that suggested it was impossible, that what goes up must come down.
Economists who study the relationship between money and happiness have consistently found that, above a certain income, the two do not reliably correlate.
They were then asked if they had felt different affective states (happiness, enjoyment, stress, sadness, anger and worry) "a lot of the day yesterday."
At home we had been so blissfully happy that I now realized it couldn't have lasted. he comes to his school from the Midlands because his family had split up.