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Experience vs Beauty
While searching for happiness, one often confuses something beautiful with something that would make one feel happy. While beauty captivates us, the actual experience makes us far happier than the physical beauty.
A beautiful home, for instance, cannot guarantee that the experience of living there would be a good one.
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The Influence Of Appearance
External beauty and pleasing appearance often influence our perception, and we believe that this would dictate our experience after we attain it.
The day-to-day experience of living in a particular place cannot be judged by its outer beauty. Our relationships and social health are more important than architecture.
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Probabilistic thinking
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The Need To Connect
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Consequences of The Lack of Connection
- Experiments done on babies in the 13th century illustrated that they would die if deprived of the human connection.
- Divorce rates are higher among couples not able to engage, resonate or respond to the others' need to connect.
Happiness and Good Relationships: A 75 Year Old Experiment
A Harvard Study of Adult Development followed and documented a large number of people over their entire lifetimes, and after 75 years, the researchers came to a conclusion that good relationships are a primary cause of health and happiness, significantly more than wealth, fame or working hard.