Happiness may plateau, but life satisfaction does not. And there has been subsequent research that casts doubt on the idea that happiness plateaus. Happiness ha

Happiness may plateau, but life satisfaction does not. And there has been subsequent research that casts doubt on the idea that happiness plateaus. Happiness has a large endogenous component i.e. it is the nature of the individual to be more or less happy on average. I would argue that life satisfaction is much more important than happiness generally regardless.