The Happiness Paradox: When Success Still Feels Empty

BY DR. GILLIAN MANDICH
You did everything that was supposed to make you happy.

You worked hard. You achieved goals. You built a career. You kept going when it was hard. From the outside, your life may even look like the kind of life people aspire to.

So why does it sometimes feel … strangely flat?

Why, after everything you’ve accomplished, do you find yourself wondering, Is this it? Or worse: What is wrong with me?

If you’ve ever had that thought, the problem is not you. The problem is the story you were told about happiness.