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Today on something you should know, everyone wants to be happy, but being too happy could be a real problem.

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With Mike Karothers. Hi, welcome to another episode of something you should know. We've talked on this podcast several times about the benefits of being happy.

Happy people make more money. They live longer. They have better relationships. There are just a lot of reasons to be happy.

But is it possible to be too happy? Apparently. You see, in this one study, people who rated themselves as a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, meaning they were as happy as they could possibly be, actually made considerably less money and were not considered as successful as people who rated themselves as 7 or 8 on that happiness scale.

Why? Well, apparently, when you're as happy as you can possibly be, you lose the motivation to improve in certain areas of life. If you're completely happy, why change?

But where it can become a problem is that extremely happy people are so optimistic that they are slow to react to trouble.

For example, they don't take illness symptoms seriously. They're slow to seek treatment and less likely to follow doctor's orders, because they believe everything will be just fine.

In short, the study found that happiness is a great goal to have, but too much of it could be counterproductive. A little unhappiness keeps you motivated. And that is something you should know.

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