06/11/2025

Five Ways to Rewire Your Brain for Happiness

These steps can help you find more positivity in your life

The United States ranks 24^th out of 100 on the list of happiest countries, according to the latest World Happiness Report. Being in the top 25 percent seems fair when you consider everything that’s happening in the world, but the stats are not great when you look at the happiness of people aged 30 and younger. In this demographic, the U.S. falls to number 62 on the list.

"It's unsettling, because it was always youth that pulled the happiness levels up on these scales," said Jennifer Moss, author of Unlocking Happiness at Work: How a Data-driven Happiness Strategy Fuels Purpose, Passion and Performance. "They're the ones that are supposed to be the hopeful, pushing-back-against-the-status-quo generation. Right now, they're struggling, and I think this is the canary in the coal mine."

Still, the report found a lot of good in the world. Participants were asked "Have you helped a stranger or someone you didn’t know who needed help in the past month?" Seventy-one percent of Americans said, "yes." That seems like a reason for hope, right?

Please select this link to read the complete article from Fast Company.