Why Einstein Said, If You Want to Live a Happy Life, Tie It To A Goal

A bigger purpose you deeply care about changes everything

4 min readMay 31, 2022

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Do you have life goals? Do they excite you? Do you look forward to taking small actions every day to get closer to it?

Long-term life pursuits change our approach to life. Something to look forward to makes you come alive…

Thomas Oppong

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