Happiness
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Your moment of
happiness
reveals that reality, that realization, that recognition: "Maybe I am the whole.
It pairs closely with love, which is the will for the other to be happy, which requires, of course, that one feels some
happiness
oneself and wishes to share it.
And every being looks beautiful when they are internally feeling a
happiness.
And so you see beings in their potential
happiness.
But it's a story until we convert it to data and so what we do, this concept we had, was to take Steven's status, "What is my status?" and go from this concept of walking, breathing, and then his hands, speak, and ultimately
happiness
and function.
Today, we celebrate
happiness.
True emotional intelligence requires that we understand the social, the political, the cultural forces that have shaped what we've come to believe about our emotions and understand how
happiness
or hatred or love or anger might still be changing now.
Implicit in this phrase of "overcoming adversity" is the idea that success, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenging experience unscathed or unmarked by the experience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability.
Everybody talks about
happiness
these days.
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness, among researchers.
There is a lot of
happiness
coaching.
But in spite of all this flood of work, there are several cognitive traps that sort of make it almost impossible to think straight about
happiness.
This applies to laypeople thinking about their own happiness, and it applies to scholars thinking about happiness, because it turns out we're just as messed up as anybody else is.
And those are two very different concepts, and they're both lumped in the notion of
happiness.
Those are two very different entities, the experiencing self and the remembering self, and getting confused between them is part of the mess about the notion of
happiness.
Now, the two selves bring up two notions of
happiness.
There are really two concepts of
happiness
that we can apply, one per self.
And, by the way, now we are capable of getting a pretty good idea of the
happiness
of the experiencing self over time.
If you ask for the
happiness
of the remembering self, it's a completely different thing.
Anyone who doesn't distinguish those notions is going to mess up the study of happiness, and I belong to a crowd of students of well-being, who've been messing up the study of
happiness
for a long time in precisely this way.
The distinction between the
happiness
of the experiencing self and the satisfaction of the remembering self has been recognized in recent years, and there are now efforts to measure the two separately.
So in recent years, we have begun to learn about the
happiness
of the two selves.
We know something about what controls satisfaction of the
happiness
self.
We know that
happiness
is mainly being satisfied with people that we like, spending time with people that we like.
So if you want to maximize the
happiness
of the two selves, you are going to end up doing very different things.
The bottom line of what I've said here is that we really should not think of
happiness
as a substitute for well-being.
Now, very quickly, another reason we cannot think straight about
happiness
is that we do not attend to the same things when we think about life, and we actually live.
We found that with respect to the
happiness
of the experiencing self.
Clearly, what is happening is money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery, and we can measure that misery very, very clearly.
CA: But Danny, the whole American endeavor is about life, liberty, the pursuit of
happiness.
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