Feb 27th, 2007
(Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
More proof that Happiness is filling in the right circle on the questionairre.
Choice Quotes:
“Once average annual income is above $20,000 a head, higher pay brings no greater happiness.”
“Happiness is better equated with satisfaction than pleasure, says Emory University psychiatrist Gregory Berns in Satisfaction (Henry Holt, 2005), because the pursuit of pleasure lands us on a never-ending hedonic treadmill that paradoxically leads to misery.”
“…in an experiment in which subjects anticipated that they would prefer an assortment of snacks, when it actually came to eating the snacks week after week, subjects in the no-variety group said that they were more satisfied than the subjects in the variety group. “
Read: Scientific American: (Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (via Action Institute Power Blog)