10 Interesting Facts about Happiness

1. Your genes and family upbringing account for only half of your happiness.
2. Only 10 percent of your happiness comes from external circumstances.
3. Your outlook on life, and what you choose to do accounts for 40 percent of your happiness levels.
4. It gets easier as you age.
5. A mere 20 minutes of exercise, three days each week will increase your happiness by 10 to 20 percent after six months
6. The happier you are, the more antibodies your body generates - up to 50 more, in fact.
7. In the US, the number of people with clinical depression is 3 to 10 times more common than it was for their grandparents at the same age.
8. Happy people generally earn more than unhappy people.
9. Women are unhappiest in their life around the age of 37; men around the age of 42.
10. Dancing increases happiness.