Once what you get is settled, if you can get yourself to enjoy it more, that will make you happier.
Why go the long way round, though? Rewrite your utility function already and you can have unlimited happiness without ever doing anything else.
And while I intend this as a reductio, “want what you have” is seriously touted as a recipe for happiness. (I am tickled by the fact that the “Related search” that Google shows me at the foot of that page is “i want what they have”.)
In contrast:
Keltham holds forth to warn Pilar of the mistake called ‘rationalization’ -
- wait, it’s called what in Taldane? That word shouldn’t even exist! You can’t ‘rationalize’ anything that wasn’t Lawful to start with! That’s like having the word for lying being ‘truthization’!
Why go the long way round, though? Rewrite your utility function already and you can have unlimited happiness without ever doing anything else.
And while I intend this as a reductio, “want what you have” is seriously touted as a recipe for happiness. (I am tickled by the fact that the “Related search” that Google shows me at the foot of that page is “i want what they have”.)
In contrast:
— planecrash. Also this.