Social scientists define happiness as positive emotions outweighing negative ones and a cognitive evaluation of life's progress.

“I'm already struck by this distinction between how things are going in your life versus with your life um one requires a a kind of firstperson experiencing of life in your life you know do you wake up feeling good are you um feeling good with your inside of your friendships and other relationships family romantic relationships school work the other um involves a bit of a third personing of self yep of looking at one's um CV either actual CV or um reflected CV um through the lens of other people and kind of getting a sense like am I doing well am I not doing well um I think this is a really important distinction”