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The mind is its own place
How powerful is our mind in determining our happiness? More powerful than most of us would believe.
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Where to focus for the most wellbeing
In the last post, we saw a simple happiness calculator: This calculator computes our wellbeing as a geometric average of the degrees to which our basic needs are met. In the above picture, the basic needs are health, love, respect and wealth. If any of these basic needs is completely unmet, then the person becomes…
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A Simple Happiness Calculator
A simple formula to calculate your wellbeing.
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Are you happy about your eudaemonia?
We use a lot of words that sound like happiness: wellbeing, joy, contentment, pleasure, bliss, ecstasy and delight are a few. We know that these words don’t all mean the same thing. Some indicate brief periods of intense happiness, others life-long. Some may be associated with a pleasurable experience, others a state of calm satisfaction….
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Be happy. Be wealthy.
Happiness is too complex a subject to cover in a blog post. But pursuing wealth without understanding its link to happiness can be harmful. I define happiness as a state of being that every human being aspires to. Since human aspirations are varied, everyone’s happiness is also a little different. Yet, as there are threads that bind humanity, so…