Depressed about politics? This happiness expert has some advice to help you get through 2024.

Election season is stressful — but there are ways to make it less so as we face months of campaigning in 2024, a happiness expert shared on "CBS Mornings."

First, don't put politics ahead of your "big four," suggests Arthur C. Brooks, a Harvard professor who studies the science of happiness and is the best-selling co-author with Oprah Winfrey of "Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier."

The "big four" are the habits and priorities the happiest people share, Brooks says, which include: