Can I really change my own happiness or is it fixed? You have far more room to change it than you have been told. The researchers who study this found that a real chunk of your happiness comes from things you actually control: changes in what you do day to day, changes in your skill set, even changes in what you earn per hour. Those are buttons you can push. So push them on purpose. Sharpen the skills that let you do more good work for patients. Restructure your day around the procedures that give you flow. Fix the no-brainer drains [...]