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The Happiness Hypothesis
The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science
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Haidt says that the answer—of the Buddha and Chinese sages like Lao Tzu in the East and the Greek Stoic philosophers in the West—constituted the “early happiness hypothesis” of ancient times. The principle was this: We are unhappy even in success because we seek happiness from success. Wealth, power, achievement, family, material comfort, and secur
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