1. Does trying to be happy make us unhappy?
Main Ideas vs. Details

2. Main Idea or Detail?
We can become unhappy if we put too much effort trying to find happiness.

3. Main Idea or Detail?
There are four mistakes people commonly make in the search for happiness.

4. Main Idea or Detail?
The author’s friend Tom speaks 6 languages.

5. Main Idea or Detail?
The author’s friend Tom spent years moving from place to place and job to job trying to become happy.

6. Main Idea or Detail?
The author’s friend Tom lived in Puerto Rico, Canada, and Germany.

7. Main Idea or Detail?
The more we value happiness, the sadder we might become.

8. Main Idea or Detail?
Psychologist Dan Gilbert claims that we want happy times in our lives too deeply, and this can backfire.

9. Main Idea or Detail?
People often believe that a perfect job, roommate, or partner will make them happy.

10. Main Idea or Detail?
Psychologist Dan Gilbert wrote a book called Stumbling on Happiness.

11. Main Idea or Detail?
Research from more than one psychologist supports Grant’s idea that looking too hard for happiness might just leave us depressed.

12. Main Idea or Detail?
We’re more happy when we experience life rather than when we think about how we are experiencing life in a given moment.