Summary
/TED TALK/
Conclusion: Modern progress has brought us possibilities. The variety of choices is good for us, but it can also be bad for us: it can deprive us of freedom, and paralyze us.
Premises
1 Freedom of choice maximizes citizen welfare. The explosion of choice is reflected in supermarkets, health care, and marriage and family work. We all have free choices and need to make decisions.
2 Everywhere we see, big and small things, material life and lifestyle, life is a matter of choice. The world we used to live in looks like this, but there are some choices, but not everything is a matter of choice.
3 has a negative effect, he produces paralysis instead of liberation. With so many choices, people find it difficult to choose paralysis. Paralysis is the result of too many choices.
4 The second effect is that even if we manage to overcome the paralysis and be able to make a choice, we end up being less than happy with the outcome of the choice. Even a good decision can create dissatisfaction. This regret is subtracted from the satisfaction you get from making the decision. When you choose one thing, you choose not to do another. These rejections may have many attractive characteristics that make what you are doing in the moment less attractive.
5 people will compare what I got with what I expected and feel disappointed. People's life choices do nothing to raise people's expectations of how good those choices are, which will produce less satisfaction with the outcome.
6 Our expectation is to think that something is better than we expect, and you will never be satisfied because expectation has reached its limit. And the secret to great happiness is low expectations.
7 It is better to have a choice than nothing, not true. Too many choices is not good. As a matter of policy, options can improve our welfare. All that has been achieved by choice in industrial society is material affluence. The problem in some parts of the world is not that they have too many choices, but too few. If some element of our society where people can make all the choices is transferred to a society where people have too few choices, then only those people's lives will improve.
8 Lack of imagination Short-sighted world view When you think that there is no freedom, you paralysis, and you will feel happy with lower satisfaction.
/ CNBC: From the ‘perfect’ salary to keeping up with the Joneses, here’s how money really affects your happiness” by Cory Stieg/
Conclusion: people's need for happiness looked at why money doesn't make us as happy as we expect and posited the ideal ways to spend your money to be happy.
Premises:
1. There is a sort of perfect 'happiness' salary
There is a perfect "happiness" salary
A just good salary will be very happy, but at a certain point, happiness will stagnate. Having more money does have a huge impact on your life and overall happiness. But when it comes to other problems such as survival, money can't solve it.
2. With happiness, being rich is relative
For rich people, money doesn't make us happier, but being more connected to others makes us happier
Because we are unhappy when we feel that we cannot maintain the same standard of living as our peers. When evaluating happiness, it depends on what people around you will have
3. Purpose is more important than money to be happy
For example, if you are happy at work, you can’t look at the high salary, but the meaning of work will make people happy, full of challenges and satisfaction
Having meaning in your activities will not only make you happier, but research shows you tend to be more productive too. But often we get stuck in a job that we hate because it pays so well.
4. You can buy happiness by doing this
How you spend your money is critical to your happiness, and you're happier spending money on experiences than on things. Simply knowing what makes you happy is key. It will be more important than ever to be aware of our beliefs about money and be willing to challenge and change them.
/my opinion/
Money brings happiness to a certain extent, but when there is enough money, the comparison between people can affect happiness. And lowering satisfaction, living in the moment makes us feel happy. Because sometimes our expectations are too high, we will feel dissatisfied with what we currently have, always wanting better, and often fall into a cycle of disappointment.
1. As mentioned in the article, "Why don't more people turn to lower-paying but more meaningful jobs?" To a certain extent, it shows that money is a factor that affects our happiness to a certain extent. If there is no money when material life cannot be guaranteed and eating becomes a problem, will we still feel happy? And as the article says, our subjective well-being will depend on comparing it with what others have. When you have enough money, when you are rich enough, you will look around and compare with it, when you are only a little richer than others, you will feel less happy
2. So why don't we try to reduce satisfaction and live in the moment? When you are rich enough, you can already meet your material needs, so why compare yourself with others? Life is your own, not someone else's. If you're feeling unhappy, it's probably not about money.
3. Just like wanting to choose more, we get enough money, compared with others, we always feel that we are not enough, and we can get more. So when is it what you expected? When we are always in comparison, we will only keep wanting more and fall into a bad cycle. So reduce satisfaction, live in the moment, and only think about what you have now, instead of comparing or blindly expecting better. Let us have more joy and happiness.
