Why We Love account short form (And You Should, Too!)
For the last several months I have been working on a book about happiness called, “The Happiness Manifesto.” The book is the product of years of research that I have been doing in a variety of fields, including anthropology, psychology, sociology, and evolutionary psychology. The goal of the book is to help you understand what makes you happy, what are your goals, and how to achieve them.
I’m not sure which of us is the happiest, but you could be.
To be honest, I never thought I could be happier. I thought I might be if I’d always been a writer. When I was about 16 I was in a car accident and never fully recovered from it. I was in the hospital for a few months. Then I got to thinking about what I wanted to be doing.
That’s right. You might be just as happy today as you were yesterday. This is because when it comes to money, happiness is a number. Your happiness, your wealth, your success are all based on how much you have. A person with plenty of money is happy, so you could be, too.
I always tell my friends, don’t judge a book by its cover. The cover tells a story, but it’s the story inside that’s the real story. There is no such thing as “happy” or “successful.” If you take that away from people who are successful, it’s like taking away the last piece of someone else’s puzzle.
The easiest way to create wealth and happiness is to find a good job. But why do we work at all if its not working for us? Instead we work to find a job that we love, and not just a job that looks good on a resume. If your job isnt working and doesn’t bring you any money, what else is going on in your life? If you think you are doing just fine, you are doing just fine.
The problem is that we are always short-changing the hard work that we have done. So when we do something that actually pays us what we are going to be paid, it is hard to see the difference. Take the case of a new student who decides to take a class without paying for it. The teacher gives the class a lot of credit for turning out the student, but the student doesn’t realize that the teacher is working to pay them.
This happens all the time. As we have pointed out before, paying for something we did or are doing does not make us any more or less valuable. And when you are making the most of your life, you are also making the most of your free time. What you are doing in the free time when you are not working for anything is not less valuable.
In the end, this is all about what you value most. Of course, the teacher isnt doing this for her own sake. She is doing it to make sure that her students, or those who work for her, are doing a good job. You can have the best teacher in the world, but if you are not keeping your students motivated, then they will not be able to work as hard as they need to.
In the same way that we are all busy doing all sorts of other things, we are all also constantly busy thinking and creating. We are busy in some ways, busy in others, busy all the time. This is why it is important to think about what we are actually doing and what we are actually thinking.