WSJ’s Life & Work team presents a holiday-season series about one secret to happiness: lower expectations of yourself and others. Up now: the family gathering. 

At the first Thanksgiving in 1621, English settlers and members of the Wampanoag tribe gathered in Plymouth, Mass., to celebrate the harvest. They ate venison and corn, and everyone put away their smartphones.

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