Joy behaves less like luck than like a skill: in the research, people who deliberately savor good moments and go looking for awe report more of it, which suggests the art of joy is mostly a matter of where you point your attention

Joy, it turns out, behaves more like a skill than like weather. The unglamorous implication is that a lot of available joy is lost not because the good things are absent but because they are barely registered. Awe: the joy of the small selfThe second skill has a more specific target, and one recent study makes it concrete. Over the eight weeks, the awe group reported more joy, gratitude and compassion, and less daily distress, than the ordinary walkers. And these are a small number of studies on a slippery emotion, better read as promising than as settled.