Happiness Is the Journey: A Dentist’s Mindset

2026-06-16T00:00:00-04:00

Why is happiness about the journey and not reaching a goal? Because it is wired into your biology. The chemistry of your brain is extremely sensitive to change, not to arrival. You see it everywhere, in drugs, in disease, in mood. Anything that shifts that chemistry and lets you sense that something is different is what registers as happiness. There is no tank you fill up once and then sit there content forever. It does not work like that. Happiness lives in the incremental steps, the small changes along the road, never at the place where the journey stops. For a [...]