To achieve greater well-being, we have two tasks. The first is to increase the level of happiness; the second is the management of misfortunes. To know where to start, some self-assessment can be helpful. One tool that can help us in this regard is known as the PANAS (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule) test, which assesses a person’s natural levels of positive and negative affect – or, more generally, each person’s state of mind – in comparison to other people. explains the American magazine The Atlantic.

Even without the PANAS test, people can quite easily determine whether happiness or unhappiness is the biggest problem in their lives. One of those who analyzed this idea was Bertrand Russell, an outstanding British thinker of the 20th century, philosopher, mathematician, logician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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