In this blog post, I will be posting the results of a Happiness Quiz that I took online. I got this idea from another student's blog post and felt that it could help me get a better understanding of my own happiness. I also thought that it could contribute to my process of writing my research paper. I have started writing my paper however I am not finished and figured this would give me some good insight to support my idea. Before I took the quiz I thought about my mental state and how happy I am on a daily basis. I tend to have many days where I am feeling happy and optimistic. However I do suffer with bad anxiety and I find that sometimes it puts me in a bad mood for a day, or a few days at a time. I just get caught up in my thoughts, worrying about my future and being successful. I also stress myself out about school a lot because I struggle with managing my time well.
Just for fun, I interviewed one of my friends and had him take the quiz before I did. I just wanted to get an idea of what quiz was about and how accurate it is because I think I know him pretty well. He scored a While taking this quiz I thought about what goes through my head on a regular basis. Some of the questions were simple, like how often do you exercise and do you take part in a spiritual activity or group. Some of the other questions were more along the lines of do you feel a sense of gratitude towards people/events from your past, and do you find yourself worrying about your future. I was actually pretty surprised to learn that I got an 89 out of 115 points. Sometimes I'm a little hard on myself and think that I have a hard time being positive about certain things. I know this quiz isn't entirely accurate on measuring my internal happiness, however it was nice to see myself receive a pretty good score from it. The quiz encourages you to read The 7 Habits of Happy People. It describes 7 of the most important aspects of being happy. I highly encourage everyone to read this short display because it really gives a good outlook on the important things in life. I believe I have a pretty strong relationship with almost all of the habits. It's all about how you look at life and appreciating the things you should. I am definitely going to recommend people in my life to read The 7 Habits of Happy people.
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Devon
11/19/2018 02:12:54 pm
I find your opinion on the happiness quiz very interesting in the fact that when i took the quiz i was also surprised at my result, it was a lot higher than i thought it would be.
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Seth
11/19/2018 04:58:40 pm
It's awesome that you got a friend to do it too, that just gives you a little bit more primary data. If you want to do another questionnaire like this Seligman has a few good ones on https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/testcenter I suggest VIA Survey of Character Strengths.
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