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How to increase happiness in 15 minutes?

2025-12-13 09:27:00, Lifestyle CNA

How to increase happiness in 15 minutes?

The holiday season is a joyous time of year for most people, filled with festivities, celebrations, and social gatherings with family and friends. However, for many, it can be a time filled with sadness.

While there is a lot of information out there on how to increase joy in your life, renowned happiness expert Sonja Lyubomirsky has discovered that just 15 minutes of meaningful conversation can make a difference.

Lyubomirsky is a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside and the author of the book "How to Be Happy." She says the best way to be happier is to feel more connected to other people, according to CNBC. And the best way to create that connection is to have a 15-minute conversation with someone, even if it's not a relative or friend.

"If you have a 15-minute or 30-minute conversation with a stranger, you'll be happier," she said.

The key is to engage the person with meaningful topics, such as how they are feeling at this time of year.

Other topics include:

• What is the best thing that happened to you this year?

• What is the worst thing that has happened to you this year?

• What are you looking forward to in 2026?

• What mistake did you make this year that turned out to be a good thing?

Lyubomirsky and her fellow researchers found that these conversions don't even need to be in person to be effective. Half-hour sessions on Zoom also made people happier.

“So basically, after 36 years of research, I, my lab, and my students have arrived at a cliché, which is that what we’ve found is that almost anything that works in randomized controlled trials to make people happier works because it makes them more connected in some way to other people,” she says in a podcast from the American Psychological Association.

"In our studies, connection is essentially the key to happiness. There are many ways to connect, but the most common way in our culture to connect is through talking."/ CNA





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