21 JUN 2014 by ideonexus

 External VS Internal Hapiness

Many different competing theories of happiness have emerged from the field of positive psychology, but if there’s one thing virtually all positive psychologists agree on, it’s this: there are many ways to be happy, but we cannot find happiness. No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness—by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15 When we try to find happiness outside of ourselves, we’re focused o...
Folksonomies: happiness gamification
Folksonomies: happiness gamification
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Make your own happiness. Auto-telik

31 JUL 2011 by ideonexus

 Guide Your Child to a $50k a Year Career

Guide your child toward a $50,000 career   People who earn six- and seven-figure incomes, studies show, are not substantially happier than those who earn five. The cutoff is about $50,000, in 2010 dollars.
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This is the median income of happy people, higher incomes than this do not come with significant increases in happiness.