To gauge how someone is doing, sometimes the simplest question — “How happy are you?” — is the best one, said Rong Su, an associate professor of management and entrepreneurship at Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Dr. Su helped develop the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving, one of the assessments these questions are based on.
If a person mostly feels happy or experiences positive emotions more often than negative ones, that’s a sign of greater overall well-being.
