Joy

Question # 1 What is joy?

Joy is a moment in time when everything seem to be just perfect.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-main-ingredient/201507/the-pursuit-pure-joy

Question # 2

How do you find joy?

To find joy at work, identify your personal purpose.

https://hbr.org/2009/10/top-ten-ways-to-find-joy-at-wo.html

We are most likely to find joy when we are fully engaged

with whatever we are doing.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-main-ingredient/201507/the-pursuit-pure-joy

The thing that sets children apart from adults their enormous capacity for joy. A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/01/joy-the-subject-schools-lack/384800/

We can find the joy that lives and waits for us in our ordinary actions. For example, when you walk, try to slow down

and appreciate

the simple act of walking. Pay attention to when your foot touches the ground and when your foot moves.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/healing-possibility/201310/ordinary-joy

To increase your joy, share your joy. When you share a positive experience, it’s important to select a supportive listener.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feeling-it/201307/the-science-behind-the-joy-sharing-joy

If you walk into a room smiling, you’re more likely to create a culture of joy than if you wear a neutral expression.

People will smile back and start to mean it.

https://hbr.org/2016/01/manage-your-emotional-culture

Happy faces trigger an approach response.

http://www.your-brain-at-work.com/files/NLJ_SCARFUS.pdf

Question # 3 How do you NOT find joy?

Placing too high value on happiness increase people's expectations for how things should be - and thereby set people up for disappointment.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1918959132, location 750.

The more people have happiness as a goal, the more they describe themselves as lonely.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1918959132, location 750:

When we are in an “everything is awesome” mood, we are far more likely to jump to conclusions. Happy people often place disproportionate emphasis on early information and disregard later details.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1918959132, location 750: