{"id":9162,"date":"2022-10-28T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2022-10-28T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:17:07","slug":"want-to-be-happy-dont-follow-your-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9162","title":{"rendered":"Want to be happy? Don\u2019t follow your gut."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“going from $40,000 to $80,000 of income gives you the same happiness boost as going from $80,000 to $160,000 of income, which gives you the same happiness boost of going from $160,000 to $320,000 of income. So basically you have to keep on doubling your income to get the same happiness boost.”
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“they found all these things like, socializing, being with friends: really, really important. Being with your romantic partner: really, really important. Many of us think that we\u2019re gonna have a good time if we just lie on our couch and browse the internet, or go on social media or play an iPhone game. And the data, when you actually ask people doing that, they tend to say they\u2019re not particularly happy doing that.”
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“So the happiest activity, according to Mappiness \u2014 and actually every experience sampling project has landed on the same exact finding \u2014 is that sex and intimacy and making love are the happiest activity, which is not so surprising.”
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“work is the second most miserable activity according to<\/a> [scholars Alex Bryson] and MacKerron, which shocked me because I had grown up with this idea that work is where you get a lot of your fulfillment and joy and purpose.”
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“the interesting thing about parenting is that there have been all these studies of identical twins, adoption studies where you have kids from the same parents raised by different families. And overall, they converge on this idea that parents just matter a lot less than we think they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of us suspect that if we do the right thing with our kids, we\u2019re gonna give them an amazing life. And if we do the wrong thing with our kids, they\u2019re gonna have a terrible life. And I think the data suggests that\u2019s just not the case at all, that the effects of parents are pretty small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has a surprisingly large effect is genetics, which a lot of people don\u2019t like talking about. But when you talk about a kid\u2019s income as an adult, genetics play two to three times a bigger role than parents do.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/even-better\/23338680\/instincts-happiness-data-seth-stephens-davidowitz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“going from $40,000 to $80,000 of income gives you the same happiness boost as going from $80,000 to $160,000 of income, which gives you the same happiness boost of going from $160,000 to $320,000 of income. So basically you have to keep on doubling your income to get the same happiness boost.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“they found all these things like, socializing, being with friends: really, really important. Being with your romantic partner: really, really important. Many of us think that we\u2019re gonna have a good time if we just lie on our couch and browse the internet, or go on social media or play an iPhone game. And the data, when you actually ask people doing that, they tend to say they\u2019re not particularly happy doing that.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“So the happiest activity, according to Mappiness \u2014 and actually every experience sampling project has landed on the same exact finding \u2014 is that sex and intimacy and making love are the happiest activity, which is not so surprising.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“work is the second most miserable activity according to [scholars Alex Bryson] and MacKerron, which shocked me because I had grown up with this idea that work is where you get a lot of your fulfillment and joy and purpose.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“the interesting thing about parenting is that there have been all these studies of identical twins, adoption studies where you have kids from the same parents raised by different families. And overall, they converge on this idea that parents just matter a lot less than we think they do.
\nMany of us suspect that if we do the right thing with our kids, we\u2019re gonna give them an amazing life. And if we do the wrong thing with our kids, they\u2019re gonna have a terrible life. And I think the data suggests that\u2019s just not the case at all, that the effects of parents are pretty small.<\/p>\n

What has a surprisingly large effect is genetics, which a lot of people don\u2019t like talking about. But when you talk about a kid\u2019s income as an adult, genetics play two to three times a bigger role than parents do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9163,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}