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It might seem strange, but I have found that one way to be happier is to spend much less time pursuing happiness. Don't look for a personal endorphin buzz. No. Look instead for a cause bigger than yourself - it's not like the world isn't full of them, from helping gay refugees to preventing ecological collapse. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said: "Happiness is a hound-dog in the sun. We're not here to be happy, but to experience great and wonderful things." You want to be happier? Then aim higher than being happy - make yourself useful.