What is happiness

Many people as they can not enjoy life like a millionaire but regret. Wealth can really give happiness? Economists have long studied: although wealth can bring people happiness, but it does not mean that the wealth, the more people the more fun. Studies have shown that, once people’s basic survival needs such as basic needs are met, then every dollar increase in wealth to the happiness itself, no longer has any special significance (diminishing marginal benefit). Such as Japan, in 1960, is still a poor country, but by the 20th century, late 80’s, the per capita income doubled in four fold, at once stood in the ranks of the richest industrialized countries. People per capita in Japan in 1987 the average level of happiness Index better than in 1060 higher than in the past they have more washing machines, cars, cameras and other material comforts, but this does not significantly increase the feeling of happiness. Clear that wealth did not bring enough happiness to people, in fact, people get more wealth in order to run around all day long, even busier than before, and the pressures of life, and happiness in the wrong?

According to the U.S. to a survey by New York State, lottery before Caimi are immersed in, if your lucky on how to how to become a fantasy, it was even severely in an interview, said: “After winning the first thing is to the company bought, and then sack the boss. “ERNIE produced winners in the award-winning, within a few weeks after, they usually immersed in the joy of windfall. However, follow-up studies have shown that wealth and can not bring lasting happiness, a few years later, those lucky ones sense of happiness in some ways even than before lacking. Happiness Where Are You? When we try to predict certain things that will make our earth happy, tend to be disappointed, because the result is often wrong. Study of happiness  expert at Harvard University psychology professor Daniel Gilbert that if you want to through the pursuit of romance, a new car or a luxury meal for dinner and be happy, then we can predict that you will not do wish fulfilled.

The psychologist that would like to use a few words to define happiness, no doubt suffering from mental disorder (Tao Dao, very Avenue - I). “It’s hard say what it is emotional, but I know that when it is coming when I can feel.” Philosophers like to give moral meaning of happiness, Aristotle claimed that a happy life is life must have good deeds, If you are guilty, you can not achieve happiness. Psychologists do not go so far, simply to say, happiness means a good feeling. Gilbert said: “The feeling is that when you granddaughter flew at your arms, when you help a tourist find his place to go, or you are eating delicious bites of hamburger, vegetable salad, the experience of that kinds of feelings. “(when you love the time with a walk, but you get to the child’s mouth when the apple … … friend, do not you think you are in bliss? - The Wei Wei,” Who is the most beautiful people “) In other words, each person to experience the feeling of happiness is the same, not only the well-being of the same reason. (Happy families are all the same, unfortunately, the family each have their own different - Tolstoy) This means that happiness is kinds of emotions, but emotions are not always a firm grip on you, the emotions can be repeated presentation, but not endless. Same kinds of emotions such as fear, of course, you do not want you to fear a long period, then for happiness, it comes will have nothing to go on a strange.

The way for the pursuit of happiness, are more often wrong time, for a time when relatively small. Now shut our eyes, so you think things can make you happy 11 emerging before our eyes: a luxury sports car, a tropical sea discard the romantic tours, a tree-shaded villa in the countryside … … When you happiness for these When the struggle, the researchers said, can be predicted, you might make mistakes.

In different ages and social levels of the population after an investigation, the researchers reached the above conclusions. First, those who participated in the survey questionnaire, if they wish to achieve after the scoring for the happiness that time to make a prediction in advance. Since then researchers have been changes in their lives follow-up survey. Several years later, when they realized the desire to get cars, villas, tourism, holidays, etc., the re-scoring of their own well-being index. Two sets of figures before and after the subtraction, if the difference is zero, then they will be the same as originally envisaged and their own well-being. But when the results came out, this difference is almost never zero. This shows that problem asks in the pursuit of happiness in front of people’s choices is full of errors.

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