Happiness is the ultimate goal that everyone wants to achieve. Everyone wants to live a happy life. However, what is the definition of happiness or what is the definition of living a happy life? This seems to differentiate with person to person. Some believe that happiness lies in living a luxurious life, traveling all around the world and living in mansions. Some believe that happiness lies with success and how many awards they win in their lifetime. Some believe that happiness lies with living a life of no stress. While others believe that happiness lies in being surrounded by those they love. However, there are factors that determine happiness like genetics, personal history, our culture, and our perspectives of life. Things go wrong and
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We all have this tendency to chase the next big thing that we tend to overlook and underappreciate what we have, which can put us in a never ending cycle of unhappiness and striving for greater and better things, this is known as adaptation-level phenomenon (Myers & DeWall, 2015). As humans we also have the tendency to compare ourselves with other people who are in a better position than we are, which puts us in a vicious cycle of always wanting to be better and creates a lot of negative emotions such as envy and hate; this is known in psychology as relative deprivation (Myers & DeWall, 2015). If we could just be content with what we have, instead of trying to be better than everyone else, we can actually live a happy and healthy …show more content…
I have learned so much about myself and on ways that I can improve my way of living. For my current situation, I have learned while being in this class that happiness may not come from being successful with loads of money. In addition, by acting happy I can actually become happy. In addition, working hard is okay, but not to the point where I feel overwhelmed and stressed out. I am going to try to spend as much time with my family and friends instead of trying to buy the latest gadgets. I have also learned that exercise can help one feel better and more energized, so I am going to start working out more often. In addition, I will be thankful for what I have and write it down so that I do not forget. The amount of information I have learned in this class is incredible and I plan on using it on bettering myself and helping my loved ones. Instead of thinking in a pessimistic way I am going to see the world in an optimistic point of view and share it with the people around me and finally reach my goal of living a happy life with the people I care
We all have this tendency to chase the next big thing that we tend to overlook and underappreciate what we have, which can put us in a never ending cycle of unhappiness and striving for greater and better things, this is known as adaptation-level phenomenon (Myers & DeWall, 2015). As humans we also have the tendency to compare ourselves with other people who are in a better position than we are, which puts us in a vicious cycle of always wanting to be better and creates a lot of negative emotions such as envy and hate; this is known in psychology as relative deprivation (Myers & DeWall, 2015). If we could just be content with what we have, instead of trying to be better than everyone else, we can actually live a happy and healthy …show more content…
I have learned so much about myself and on ways that I can improve my way of living. For my current situation, I have learned while being in this class that happiness may not come from being successful with loads of money. In addition, by acting happy I can actually become happy. In addition, working hard is okay, but not to the point where I feel overwhelmed and stressed out. I am going to try to spend as much time with my family and friends instead of trying to buy the latest gadgets. I have also learned that exercise can help one feel better and more energized, so I am going to start working out more often. In addition, I will be thankful for what I have and write it down so that I do not forget. The amount of information I have learned in this class is incredible and I plan on using it on bettering myself and helping my loved ones. Instead of thinking in a pessimistic way I am going to see the world in an optimistic point of view and share it with the people around me and finally reach my goal of living a happy life with the people I care