Eps 1228: happy
— The too lazy to register an account podcast
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Lee Franklin
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I think of that when I see a happy smiling friend on Facebook, and I'm constantly promoting what's going on in her life. Worse, I have seen my own friends post photos of themselves on social media about their ridiculously happy lives that they never share with me.
So we must stop judging others as lazy, uninspiring, and unambitious when they report being happier than they are. Just remember that every person's happiness version is a little different and the process of achieving it is also. Ultimately, each of us is responsible for making our own happiness cake, but we must be filled with the ingredients that give true satisfaction and satisfaction.
If you have bad news, make a mistake or just feel like you're on the radio, don't try to pretend you're happy. Be grateful for what you have, evaluate who you are, and stop comparing yourself to others. We all work hard every day to live a good life, but that doesn't mean we have to walk around with a fake smile on our face all the time.
Even if you are a social butterfly, the conscious expenditure of time can help you reconnect with the activities that really make you happy. Unlike a holiday, planning a holiday or a break from work can improve your happiness. We live in a happy - obsessed society, constantly bombarded by happy smiling faces on TV, billboards and advertisements telling us their version of happiness, and billboards outside our homes with their versions of happiness. I believe happiness comes from great transformative experiences, but we fail to spend a moment with ourselves.
If you find that a daily compliment gives you the necessary boost to your mood, you should do it on a larger scale, such as a weekly or monthly compliment, or even a monthly or annual compliment.
That last line is particularly fascinating: "Daily happiness in the US is lower for higher-income people than for middle-income people. Other economists have found that people's happiness increases as their income rises, but that may be because people have been conditioned to combine wealth with high life satisfaction, while their actual well-being remains static. Similarly, a recent study by economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research , which allows analysts to estimate the level of happiness associated with a range of daily activities, shows that happiness increases with an increase in income at the lower end of the scale, and then declines with higher income. There is some debate about this realisation: I think there is a debate about this realisation because, on the one hand, actual changes in your income can have a positive effect on your happiness, while, on the other, an actual change in income will bring you very little happiness.
Here's an example: when people earning $30,000 a year are asked what annual salary they would take to make them truly happy, the average answer is $50,000. If you asked me, "I'm just really happy," you'd expect them to say they earn $100,500 a month, or $250 a week. Instead, they say on average that they are "really happy" if they earn $300,300 a day, while if you earn $500,200 a weekend, they are not really happier, and vice versa.
You might think that means there is a fixed amount of money that brings happiness, but that is not quite true either. Once basic needs are met, the desire for eternal - rising - money supply is ever smaller. In other words, happiness depends on living in the moment, rather than longing for future indicators of success. Happiness is simply the ability to not want more, and gratitude and satisfaction are found in this moment we have right now.
So you could increase your annual income by hundreds of thousands of dollars, but would you be just as happy if you strengthened your social relationships? Being wealthy also means harshly judging others for being happier than you with what they have , thus maintaining the status quo and increasing the likelihood that more people will be unhappy than if they had everything. Seeing happiness only as a positive emotional state is one way to ignore or suppress other emotions that do not make you feel good. Almost everything else that you believe makes you happy is that you get more family or friends. If you have family and friends, you are happier, and if you have friends for a long time, you are happier.