What is Happiness and Belonging?
Happiness, belonging, and making contributions defined by two very different sources. I've recently come across two fairly straightforward definitions of (and therefore how to achieve) happiness and belonging. Sharing them here, without comment, because, well, don't we all want to know? From The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga All of us are searching for the sense of belonging, that "it's okay to be here" In Adlerian psychology, however, a sense of belonging is something that one can attain only by making an active commitment to the community of ones own accord, and not simply by being here. p. 170 of The Courage to Be Disliked b y Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga and It's quite simple. It is when one is able to feel "I am beneficial to the community" that one can have a true sense of one's worth. This is the answer that would ...
