4. Smart people against happiness:
Every happiness is but lent by chance for
an uncertain time, and may therefore be
demanded back the next hour.
Schopenhauer Freud Sartre
5. Smart people against happiness:
The intention that man should
be happy is not included in
the plan of Creation.
Schopenhauer Freud Sartre
6. Smart people against happiness:
@#%$*$( happiness %^!#@
(^*)!@#!@__*#@!^#!!!!
Schopenhauer Freud Sartre
7. Amount of articles in psychology 359,295
magazines from 1887 to 2003:
242,134
93,381
38,349 43,529
23,790
933 4,247
Prophy- Therapy
Courage Fear Happiness Depression
lactics
Good
BAD
15. Actually…
H
A
P There’s a mildly
P positive correlation
I between happiness
N
E and intelligence.
S
S INTELLIGENCE
Source: Choi and Veenhoven (2008)
45. Percentage of very happy people in the US:
41%
36%
21%
16%
Atheists Former believers Believers New believers
46. But this is true only for religious countries.
(Also, non-religious Denmark and Netherlands are happier than the US.)
Denmark
India
Nepal
Afghanistan
48. Factors that affect happiness:
Income
Employment
10% Family status
Genes
Health
Age
50% Religiousness
40%
Hedonic affect
Flow
Meaning of life
Source: Lyubomirsky (2008), consensus estimate
55. The flow is a psychological state
where things just happen…
Too hard
Challenge
lo w
F Too boring
Skills Source: Csikszentmihalyi (1975)
56. Work that you like:
+28%
Source: Thakar and Misra (1995)
57. Monetize! Stop doing!
Can do
Happiness
There’s
Want a market
to do for that
Source: loosely adapted from
Practice! Jim Collins’ Good to Great
58. There’s only one thing you need
to know about sustained
individual success: "Discover
what you don't like doing and
stop doing it."
— Marcus Buckingham