It almost looks like a magic formula: happiness would reside in the addition of three elements, as Jimmy Mohamed explains in his chronicle of the morning of Matthieu Belliard, on Europe 1. The doctor insists in particular on the need not to grant too much importance to criticism from colleagues to project into the future.

You are not dreaming: there is a scientifically proven form of "recipe" for happiness.

This is in any case what reveals a very long study published in the 

British Medical Journal

, that the doctor and columnist of Europe 1 Jimmy Mohamed analyzes in the morning of Europe 1. For the doctor, the ability to turn to the future, to have fun as in childhood and to surround oneself with loved ones to overcome the trials of life are the keys to a happy life, in a context of the most difficult.

“This recipe was found in one of the longest studies on happiness. Some 700 people have been followed since 1938. The oldest participant in the study is now 90 years old and different people were included in this study. with obviously different socio-economic levels, people with low incomes, others with high incomes, people with little education up to the highest graduates of Harvard. Initially, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was part of the cohort.

Make a clean sweep of the past

These participants were asked regularly, first about their health, to find out how they were doing.

But they were also asked questions about their life and their emotions.

Were they good in their head and in their skin?

We finally questioned their relatives and those around them.

We were able to identify certain behaviors that were associated with happiness.

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Contrary to popular belief, it is not necessarily money and beautiful cars that generate happiness, even if, of course, this can contribute to it.

We were able to identify three things.

The first is to make a clean sweep of the past, forget about past failures and stop obsessing over what we may have missed.

You have to try to move forward and not pay attention to details that are superficial.

Do not pay attention to unfounded criticism from colleagues and relatives.

It is counterproductive.

Above all, people who live longer and in good health have realized that life is short and should be taken advantage of. 

A social existence, therefore happy?

The second thing might appeal to you: practice activities that make you happy, especially those that made you happy during your childhood.

Now, when you're an adult, you have more time and more possibilities to reproduce what you enjoyed in childhood.

Have fun !

The last point is the social bond.

The happiest people in this study had contacts, whoever they were.

It can be your spouse, your spouse, relatives, family, friends ... For those who are not lucky or the possibility of having relatives, we can offer volunteering.

At that point, you are going to have people around you who have the same interests as yours.

With this little recipe, you might just be a little happier.

A successful year 2021, or in any case a better one, undoubtedly depends on these ingredients! "