Happiness
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They've created a habitat of
happiness
for Dave.
Why is it that business leaders and investors quite often don't see the connection between creating the intangible of employee
happiness
with creating the tangible of financial profits in their business?
Almost universally, they next asked for
happiness
and then love, in that order: health, happiness, love.
Even when they could have asked for absolutely anything, they all asked for health,
happiness
and love.
This narrative promises so much: freedom, happiness, success.
And unsurprisingly, people all around the world say that what they want is happiness, for themselves, for their families, their children, their communities.
It's there, but it's not nearly as important as happiness, and it's not nearly as important as love.
It's like a
happiness
adjusted life-expectancy.
What are these for
happiness?
And the point of these is they are, not quite, the secrets of happiness, but they are things that I think
happiness
will flow out the side from.
You measure their
happiness
at the end of the day, those that have gone and spent on other people are much happier that those that spent it on themselves.
And so I think it's really quite feasible that
happiness
does not cost the earth.
And then I believe that we can all create a world we all want, where
happiness
does not cost the earth.
And I think that sometimes we develop grand concepts of what
happiness
might look like for us, but that, if we pay attention, we can see that there are little symbols of
happiness
in every breath that we take.
Because
happiness
can be synthesized.
Now, you don't need me to give you too many examples of people synthesizing happiness, I suspect, though I'm going to show you some experimental evidence.
I took a copy of the "New York Times" and tried to find some instances of people synthesizing
happiness.
Here are three guys synthesizing
happiness.
OK, there's something important to be learned from these people, and it is the secret of
happiness.
Because when people synthesize happiness, as these gentlemen seem to have done, we all smile at them, but we kind of roll our eyes and say, "Yeah, right, you never really wanted the job."
We smirk, because we believe that synthetic
happiness
is not of the same quality as what we might call "natural happiness."
Natural
happiness
is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic
happiness
is what we make when we don't get what we wanted.
And in our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic
happiness
is of an inferior kind.
I want to suggest to you that synthetic
happiness
is every bit as real and enduring as the kind of
happiness
you stumble upon when you get exactly what you were aiming for.
Let me first show you an experimental paradigm that's used to demonstrate the synthesis of
happiness
among regular old folks.
Watch as
happiness
is synthesized.
Here's what normal controls do: they synthesize
happiness.
What these people did when they synthesized
happiness
is they really, truly changed their affective, hedonic, aesthetic reactions to that poster.
And yet, all of us have this psychological immune system, this capacity to synthesize happiness, but some of us do this trick better than others.
It turns out that freedom, the ability to make up your mind and change your mind, is the friend of natural happiness, because it allows you to choose among all those delicious futures and find the one that you would most enjoy.
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