«You're running but you're on that treadmill and you're not getting anywhere in
terms of happiness,» science journalist Wendy Zukerman explained on a 2015 episode of her podcast series «Science Vs» about happiness.
«Things could sour quickly, but... maybe I'm just saying it, but I think we're in a tentatively firm position in
terms of happiness, subject to contingencies.»
«When people are making resource trade - offs between time and money, they should consider what the value placed on one versus another will ultimately get them in the long run — in
terms of happiness.»
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In
terms of happiness, that is!
However I think there's also a growing sense that materialism has a strict law of steeply diminishing returns in
terms of happiness.
Although the environmental benefits of reducing one's consumption are well documented, the mental health benefits of a simpler and more environmentally sustainable lifestyle — in
terms of happiness (or «subjective well - being»)-- are poorly understood in the sciences.
That type of learning isn't sustainable in
terms of happiness and loyalty.
But how does prosocial behaviour compare to treating yourself in
terms of your happiness?
Stress from psychological issues can cause a lifetime of loss in
terms of happiness, health, finances, and peace of mind.
Not exact matches
We can feel more connected and less lonely, and that correlates with long -
term measures
of happiness and health.
She explains her research in a recent piece in The Atlantic: «To examine long -
term trends in
happiness in the U.S., my colleagues and I merged reams
of survey data from 1972 to 2014, from four nationally representative samples totaling 1.3 million Americans.
Face - to - face communication happens to be not only essential for human
happiness but also could be the missing link to some
of the most powerful, long -
term health benefits.
One study found that the presence
of flowers has an immediate impact on a person's
happiness, and long -
term effects too, with people reportedly feeling less anxious, depressed and agitated.
I'm curious: For your long -
term happiness, which
of those three would you be most willing to give up?
«We're bringing
happiness up in
terms of salience, making it more top
of mind for people,» says Goldsmith.
Gilbert, author
of Stumbling on
Happiness, encourages audience members to look past short - term, material, and goal - oriented happiness in order to find a kind of happiness that can be sustained when things don't go according
Happiness, encourages audience members to look past short -
term, material, and goal - oriented
happiness in order to find a kind of happiness that can be sustained when things don't go according
happiness in order to find a kind
of happiness that can be sustained when things don't go according
happiness that can be sustained when things don't go according to plan.
In addition to measuring short and long
term customer
happiness, Gusto also tracks how many new customers come from word
of mouth.
Money may convince you that a position is right for you in the short -
term, but I can guarantee that if you figure out later on that you hate what you do, no amount
of money in the world will keep you there - because money can't buy
happiness.
In any case, if you get in the habit
of asking yourself a few
of the following questions before making a «big» purchase, you can easily remove some spending on items that don't add to your long
term happiness and financial goals.
He shed that cynicism after recently coming to
terms with the idea that success without
happiness or purpose was draining, and that empathy was a way
of staying away from pessimism.
Shawn Achor frames this rewiring as «The Positive Tetris Effect» in The
Happiness Advantage, drawing from the way Tetris impresses our brain so that we end up parsing the world in
terms of the game.
This is the most beneficial form
of short
term happiness.
To understand how money can make you happier at a deeper level, I think we should look at two different types
of happiness — short
term and long
term.
We can feel more connected and less lonely, and that correlates with long
term measures
of happiness and health.
For them, at last, there would be some kind
of future; some older faces to apply to their unfolding lives, some language in which their identity could be properly discussed, some rubric by which it could be explained - not in
terms of sex, or sexual practices, or bars, or subterranean activity, but in
terms of their future life stories, their potential loves, their eventual chance at some kind
of constructive
happiness.»
Being in favour with the powerful, having approval
of one's peer group and attentive to one's own security and
happiness in
terms of the world.
Happiness has been explored in
terms of the relations between humans and their past, the objection goes, while the relation
of human action to the future has been ignored.
In any case, I wish to make clear that both
terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view
of interest (or self - interest, or
happiness) is simply one
of the alternatives.2 In speaking
of a private view
of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive
of,
happiness.
The meaning
of every key
term in the civil religion — certainly liberty and the pursuit
of happiness, but also equality and even life — differs in those two perspectives.18
«Christian freedom is not, as St Paul says, a gift to be used as «an opportunity for self - indulgence» (Galatians 5:13) but the freedom to give ourselves in loving service... it has absolutely nothing to do with a truncated notion
of a
happiness that is defined — at least in America — in
terms of consumer choice.»
In the history
of Western philosophy, the
terms pleasure,
happiness, and satisfaction have been those most commonly used to describe what is valuable in and about human subjectivity.
It is a great error to conceive
of democracy in Utilitarian
terms, as that form
of government that affords «the greatest good to the greatest number,» where «good» means pleasure,
happiness, and the fulfilling
of desires.
In response, the proponents
of «
happiness» as the goal
of life could point out that this
term can be understood in much richer ways.
If MacIntyre is captive to the
terms of this disjunction, it is because, with Aristotle, he fails to distinguish adequately two branches
of knowledge: eudaimonology, the object
of which is human
happiness and the means to attain it; and ethics, the object
of which is human conduct in the light
of reason as differentiating good from evil.
The fact that disregarding one's own short -
term needs results in longer -
term happiness turns the neo-classical economics notion
of selfish individualism upside down.
Driven to seek short -
term pleasure or to seek meaning, a higher purpose, a longer -
term state
of happiness?
They've discovered the things that actually bring
happiness are long -
term loving relationships, strong social connections, the opportunity to pursue meaningful work, a sense
of optimism and openness to new experiences, as well as a spiritual belief or identification with an issue or idea larger than oneself.
Sure, it seems to give her a false
happiness and a sense that she will see her baby again, but counseling would actually help her to come to
terms with it instead
of just saying «oh well» and bottling it up.
The special significance attached to a period
of 1,000 years eventually became so widespread that the
term millennium now appears in the Oxford English Dictionary as «a period
of happiness and benign government».
In fact,
happiness is a short -
term side effect
of eating veggies, which means that while increased health occurs over a longer period
of time,
happiness can increase much more quickly once one makes a habit
of eating veggies.
Olivier only speaks about his
happiness in
terms of others — the
happiness he observes in teammates, mothers, and young ones in the camp.
Recent research indicates American kids today are falling short in
terms of academic achievement,
happiness, and wellness - when compared to the rest
of the world.
Chapter 3 explores how these challenges are affecting parents — both in
terms of their overall
happiness and in how they evaluate the job they are doing raising their children.
So, instead
of wishing your baby would just «sleep through», it can help to try and consider night milk as «smart milk» and see those snuggly night feeds as priming your baby's brain for long -
term health and
happiness.
Overindulged participants in the study were more likely to hold values that were congruent with materialism in
terms of defining success and
happiness
In
terms of mental health, close connection is the strongest predictor
of happiness, much more so than making lots
of money or winning the lottery.
In
Terms of Cognitive Development, Most One Year Olds Can: Show
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Not only have measures
of well - being and
happiness ceased to rise with economic growth but, as affluent societies have grown richer, there have been long -
term rises in rates
of anxiety, depression, and numerous other social problems.
The widely accepted «set - point» theory
of happiness says that an individual's long -
term happiness tends to be stable because it depends mainly on genetic factors.