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Nobody optimizes happiness
Note that seeking happiness as an end might be counterproductive. Many people report that constantly checking to see if they are happy actually decreases their happiness - a report that fits with the research on "flow." It may be better to seek some of the above goals as ends, and happiness will be a side-effect.
LessWrong • How to Be Happy - LessWrong
summit of Mount Delectable, but none of them expressed lasting contentment either. Because we’re so indoctrinated to believe that “success” equals happiness, it’s worth restating the point.
Martha Beck • The Way of Integrity: Finding the path to your true self
We commonly spend our lives focused on the future: usually this carrot dangles before us in the form of a career ladder. It is easy to follow the carrot and harder to think about what might truly make us happy. We follow the former, not realising that we will never reach it to savour it, or that even if we do, we might find that particular carrot i
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Most of the time, achieving goals won’t make you any happier than you are right now.1
While some believe this fact about human nature implies striving is wasteful, I think it’s more accurate to say that while achieving goals is overrated, striving toward them is underrated.
While some believe this fact about human nature implies striving is wasteful, I think it’s more accurate to say that while achieving goals is overrated, striving toward them is underrated.