Want to Be Wiser? Start by Studying the Happiest People

A note to young leaders.

Who’s the happiest person you know?

Or to put it more precisely: who’s the most consistently happy person you’ve spent a lot of time with?

Pause for a moment to contemplate your answer.

Do you have a person in mind?

Ok, good.

Can you think of another person who is equally as happy or almost as happy as this person?

Good.

For me, it’s my father – and his sister, my aunt.

Now, ask yourself: What do these two people have in common?

What makes them both so robustly happy?

Figure that out and you’re half-way to wisdom. The other half is the will.