Ways Happiness Can Hurt You(greatergood.berkeley.edu)
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Ways Happiness Can Hurt You
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This is great news! Now I can be happy that I'm unhappy! Oh wait
trying too hard to find a reason to take a controversial position... felt like very sophisticated click bait
I found his article way too vague. I mean, experience happiness in the right amount, what kind of suggestions is that? It's not like a control knob which you can regulate.
Also there was inaccuracy in the term happiness, often I thought the authors meant contentment or something else.
Dealing with happiness I found Dan Millmans' "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" very, very enlightening and gave me clearer way on life, though a lot of its concept discussed are on a meta level and a lot of forgotten after reading, but it helped.
At least it dealt with the topic in a realistic way and not in this pop-style as the article.
I think the following quote of Little Miss Sunshine makes a good statement about happiness:
Dwayne: I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all this crap-high school and everything-just skip it. Frank: Do you know who Marcel Proust is? Dwayne: Hes the guy you teach. Frank: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh... he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didnt learn a thing. So, if you sleep until youre 18... Ah, think of the suffering youre gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-those are your prime suffering years. You dont get better suffering than that.
Also there was inaccuracy in the term happiness, often I thought the authors meant contentment or something else.
Dealing with happiness I found Dan Millmans' "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" very, very enlightening and gave me clearer way on life, though a lot of its concept discussed are on a meta level and a lot of forgotten after reading, but it helped.
At least it dealt with the topic in a realistic way and not in this pop-style as the article.
I think the following quote of Little Miss Sunshine makes a good statement about happiness:
Dwayne: I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all this crap-high school and everything-just skip it. Frank: Do you know who Marcel Proust is? Dwayne: Hes the guy you teach. Frank: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh... he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didnt learn a thing. So, if you sleep until youre 18... Ah, think of the suffering youre gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-those are your prime suffering years. You dont get better suffering than that.