Tag: happy
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The Culture of Want
We have only been living in a Culture of Want for about a hundred years. Only until we mechanized the production of thing did we start to market to people’s wants. Before that time, it was a Culture of Need. We only bought what we needed. We only built what…
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First World Problems
I’ve written about First World Problems before. I hear people talk about first world problems, but what do we really know about first world problems. We talk about first world problems to give us perspective on how well we have it and how much we complain. I have only been…
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Measuring Happy
You can measure work. It’s measured by hours. Some measure it by the amount of money that they make. Whether you work hard or not, you can measure that amount much easier than you can Measure Pleasure or Happiness. I was listening to a talk this week, and I’ve been…
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Music and Dopamine
Good music releases dopamine. Dopamine makes you happy. Good music makes you happy. It is a natural high. It is a feel good chemical in our brain. There is some good neuroscience explanations for why that happens, but you can go Google that on your own. Sometimes I listen to…
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How to Know If You’re Happy
All you have to do is answer a few questions. Download the iPhone app so that they can ping you every now and then. You can then tell them how happy you are. Go check it out – www.trackyourhappiness.org. I do want to tell you that you don’t need an…
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iOS4 and Happiness
It is amazing to me how happy this can make someone. I mean – so much happiness that comes from a mobile device operating system. Now some of my tell me that I cannot know this happiness because I do not own an iPhone. Work has a t-mobile corporate plan…