Wow, this is unexpected in so many levels for me. You have access to happiness research yet you would stick to what you want instead. I don’t mean to insult or think there is anything wrong, I’m just genuinely staggered at the fact.
I have read some thousands of pgs in happiness research, and started to follow advice. I’m more generous, I take long walks, I cherish friendships, I care very little for a long career, I go to evolutionary envinroments all the time (the park, swimming pools and beaches) I pursue objectives which really ought to make me say “I was doing something I consider important” and ignore money, having children, and some parts of familial obligations.
We had the same info, and we took such different paths...… this is awesome.
So I suppose I am much happier but am in a constant struggle not to want lots of things that I naturally would. So I’m in a kind of strenuous effort of self-control leading to constant bliss.
I suppose that you are less happier (though probably not in any way perceivable from a first person perspective) but way more relaxed, prone to be guided by your desires and wishes, and willing to actually go there and do that thing you feel like doing.....
I wish I was you for two weeks or something, if only that were possible, and then I came back.…
“I suppose that you are less happier (though probably not in any way perceivable from a first person perspective) but way more relaxed, prone to be guided by your desires and wishes, and willing to actually go there and do that thing you feel like doing.....”
What makes you think that the person you are responding to is more relaxed? You’d think that constantly pursuing wants would make them less relaxed since it takes a lot of energy to pursue worldly things.
Wow, this is unexpected in so many levels for me. You have access to happiness research yet you would stick to what you want instead. I don’t mean to insult or think there is anything wrong, I’m just genuinely staggered at the fact.
I have read some thousands of pgs in happiness research, and started to follow advice. I’m more generous, I take long walks, I cherish friendships, I care very little for a long career, I go to evolutionary envinroments all the time (the park, swimming pools and beaches) I pursue objectives which really ought to make me say “I was doing something I consider important” and ignore money, having children, and some parts of familial obligations.
We had the same info, and we took such different paths...… this is awesome.
So I suppose I am much happier but am in a constant struggle not to want lots of things that I naturally would. So I’m in a kind of strenuous effort of self-control leading to constant bliss. I suppose that you are less happier (though probably not in any way perceivable from a first person perspective) but way more relaxed, prone to be guided by your desires and wishes, and willing to actually go there and do that thing you feel like doing.....
I wish I was you for two weeks or something, if only that were possible, and then I came back.…
“I suppose that you are less happier (though probably not in any way perceivable from a first person perspective) but way more relaxed, prone to be guided by your desires and wishes, and willing to actually go there and do that thing you feel like doing.....”
What makes you think that the person you are responding to is more relaxed? You’d think that constantly pursuing wants would make them less relaxed since it takes a lot of energy to pursue worldly things.
And, what you think that you aren’t relaxed?