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How to create a cosy and comfortable home environment
How to cultivate a sense of gratitude and contentment
The benefits of slowing down and enjoying simple pleasures
Getting what you want…
…need not make you happy.
- People sometimes make choices they come to regret.
- We need to question whether society should just feed human desires all the time.
- Bentham’s utilitarianism conceived of a good society as one that makes its people happy.
- But what if the things people desire don’t bring them happiness?
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An interesting research
- In 2019, a few economists (Hunt Allcott et al.) investigated how much money they had to pay Facebook users in order to deactivate the Facebook app for one or two months.
- They found that the median amount was $100, and the average wa...
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Man was made for Joy & Woe
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go
Joy & Woe are woven fine
WILLIAM BLAKE
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Utility and Economics
- Much of modern economic theory is based around Utility.
- British Philosopher Jeremy Bentham was the inventor of Utilitarianism.
- To an economist, utility simply means how much peop...
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Happiness research
- There’s no clear consensus on how to measure happiness.
- Some neuroscientists have tried to link it to various measures of brain activity.
- Economists tend to use a cheaper and quicker method, sending out ...
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Social Media and Happiness
- Allcott et al. found that the people who deactivated Facebook as part of the experiment were happier afterward, reporting higher levels of satisfaction and lower levels of depression and anxiety. This was 25-40% of improvement repo...
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Utility and Happiness
- Having a bigger house and more money doesn’t necessarily make people happy.
- Just like social media, things that bring utility need not bring happiness.
- Surveys show that people usually predict that the things they say they’d pay money for would also ...
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Ensuring happiness
- Happiness is hard to measure.
- Happiness surveys don’t reveal the measure of true happiness. Because people say what they think they should say due to cultural expectations.
- People could ...
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It's fairly easy to look for the things that make us happy, but we have to note that choosing the wrong things to value can lead to more harm than good. We need to be able to pick the thing that bring us happiness and makes our life better in a general sense.
Moreover, while evaluating hap...
Know What You Want
Would you hire someone to work on your house without a license? Probably not, since it’s hard to know whether they are qualified and have the skills necessary for the job. The same goes for hiring new employees. You need to define what qualifications they should have before you make them an offer...
Happiness: Becoming Self-Aware And Taking Stock
One needs to be aware about what is giving us happiness and what is taking it away from us.
A simple exercise of writing on a notepad the things that make us happy, and the things that don’t, is a good start towards being aware. From this point, we just need to manage our limited time to f...
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