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Living in flow - the secret of happiness with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at Happiness & Its Causes 2014
youtube.comThe Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
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Happiness too often seems to be less a reflection of our actual happiness and more a reflection of the ways in which we compare ourselves to others.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
The non-stop comparison game that Maximizers play usually makes them miserable. We could say that maximizers are more driven by mimetic desire than the “Satisificers”—those who are satisfied with finding “the right fit” rather than needing to maximize every outcome.We not only want the things that we can’t have; we don’t want things unless other pe... See more
Luke Burgis • What People Are Really Doing When They Play Hard to Get
"Happiness is when you're doing what you want to be doing"
Danny Kahneman - Nobel prize-wining psychologist
They developed an iPhone app (the irony of this is not lost on me) that contacted more than 2,250 volunteers at random intervals to ask how happy they were, what they were currently doing, and whether they had been concentrating on their current activity or thinking about the past or future. Killingsworth and Gilbert found that the quality of one’s
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