We Synthesize Happiness under controlled conditions
Dan Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of “Stumbling on Happiness” and argues that happiness can be synthesized better under controlled conditions than under uncontrolled conditions.
He talks about natural happiness versus synthesized happiness. It turned out that people with the highest amount of freedom and choices were less happy than the people with fewer opportunities.
“Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted. Synthesized happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted. It’s as real and enduring natural happiness, the happiness we control and sometimes even more so, because we can manufacture it within. Freedom is the friend of natural happiness but the enemy of synthetic happiness. Not knowing this can work to our disadvantage. Here is why?
Psychological immune system works best when we are totally stuck and trapped. Reversible conditions are less conducive to happiness than irreversible conditions. We don’t know conditions under which synthetic happiness grows.
When preferences drive us to hard and too fast because one has overrated the difference between choices we are at risk. When our ambition is bounded it leads us joyfully. Unbounded ambition leads us to hurt others and to sacrifice things of real value.
Natural happiness makes less happiness than synthetic happiness.”
Our longings and our worries are overblown because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity which we are constantly chasing when we choose experience.
Viva la Meditation… = synthesized happiness
ieet.org/index.php/IEE.../gilberthappy/
Watch the video!
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The reason I posted this is because in spirituality we often have certain codes to follow....
The is study shows that controlled circumstances can often bring out more good than we want to admit to our freedom loving selves.
Dan Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of “Stumbling on Happiness” and argues that happiness can be synthesized better under controlled conditions than under uncontrolled conditions.
He talks about natural happiness versus synthesized happiness. It turned out that people with the highest amount of freedom and choices were less happy than the people with fewer opportunities.
“Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted. Synthesized happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted. It’s as real and enduring natural happiness, the happiness we control and sometimes even more so, because we can manufacture it within. Freedom is the friend of natural happiness but the enemy of synthetic happiness. Not knowing this can work to our disadvantage. Here is why?
Psychological immune system works best when we are totally stuck and trapped. Reversible conditions are less conducive to happiness than irreversible conditions. We don’t know conditions under which synthetic happiness grows.
When preferences drive us to hard and too fast because one has overrated the difference between choices we are at risk. When our ambition is bounded it leads us joyfully. Unbounded ambition leads us to hurt others and to sacrifice things of real value.
Natural happiness makes less happiness than synthetic happiness.”
Our longings and our worries are overblown because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity which we are constantly chasing when we choose experience.
Viva la Meditation… = synthesized happiness
ieet.org/index.php/IEE.../gilberthappy/
Watch the video!
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The reason I posted this is because in spirituality we often have certain codes to follow....
The is study shows that controlled circumstances can often bring out more good than we want to admit to our freedom loving selves.
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