Don't try to get happier. Change your environment.

Be intentional about your friends and the people you roll deep with.

Back in the day, I used to write a lot about happiness, including an article entitled "Happiness is bullshit." (Don't worry -- I argued for "contentment" instead.) I also once spoke of the "U-Curve" of happiness.

Not that you should give a flying fuck, but it's interesting to me to look back on these. I don't think I was actually happy at the time. I mor…