>>8 I never said I'm particularly smart, though I guess I'll take the compliment. To my mind persistence is a different virtue entirely. As for why I'm not the happiest person on earth, it seems that you are misunderstanding brains. Our happiness is not primarily determined by how good our situation is or how well we're doing. A brief glance at global happiness statistics should be enough to tell you as much. They keep their respective baseline, and beyond pharmaceutical intervention there isn't very much one can do about that. I've gotten a good bit *happier*, but it's probably saner to attribute that to the general shift of neurotransmitter equilibria that comes with ageing as opposed to any particular course of action. For this reason among others, happiness is probably a pretty ill-chosen target to be aspiring to. I achieve more of my goals than the average person, and I've made myself pretty useful to others. Playing ones part in making the world nicer seems a much more fruitful path than personal bliss imo. Again: golden rule. It's what I'd want others to do.
>>11 nonsense >>8 what is with this site's users having the most brain-dead logic possible? being smart equals to being happy somehow? I couldn't come up with something more nonsensical if i tried and trained for 100 years. if someone was the smarted person alive, why would he even want to be "happy"? why would he even mind his temporary feelings if he's smart enough to control his worldly passions like being muh happy? you know who's worried about happiness? kids are. women are. idiots are. not fucking smart men. it's the least of his fucking worries. imagine the world is collapsing right in front of you and since you're so smart you have the power to fix it, would you jerk off your emotions for happiness? no you fucking wouldn't. thats what a idiot would do.
I never said I'm particularly smart, though I guess I'll take the compliment. To my mind persistence is a different virtue entirely. As for why I'm not the happiest person on earth, it seems that you are misunderstanding brains. Our happiness is not primarily determined by how good our situation is or how well we're doing. A brief glance at global happiness statistics should be enough to tell you as much. They keep their respective baseline, and beyond pharmaceutical intervention there isn't very much one can do about that. I've gotten a good bit *happier*, but it's probably saner to attribute that to the general shift of neurotransmitter equilibria that comes with ageing as opposed to any particular course of action. For this reason among others, happiness is probably a pretty ill-chosen target to be aspiring to. I achieve more of my goals than the average person, and I've made myself pretty useful to others. Playing ones part in making the world nicer seems a much more fruitful path than personal bliss imo. Again: golden rule. It's what I'd want others to do.