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> If your ratio was greater than 2.9013 positive emotions to 1 negative emotion you were flourishing in life. I cannot fathom how honest, intelligent people en
by ukulele 9y ago
> If your ratio was greater than 2.9013 positive emotions to 1 negative emotion you were flourishing in life.
I cannot fathom how honest, intelligent people end up thinking they've "solved" for something like happiness or flourishing in a mathematically meaningful way. And to 4 decimal places!
- lionsdan 9y agoIs that still the default precision displayed in Excel?
- hinkley 9y agoI am just picturing someone haranguing a person for dropping them from 2.92 to 2.90 and ‘ruining everything.’
- hammock 9y agoYou should watch Black Mirror s3e1 "Nosedive"!!
- WalterSear 9y agoLook, Puppy dog, Birthday, Fun at the beach. Are we cool now?
- yters 9y agoBy that logic, if someone has 3 happy moments and then kills themselves they are one of the happiests people who has ever lived.
- naasking 9y agoOnly if you could successfully argue that anyone would kill themselves in those circumstances. I won't hold my breath.
- yters 9y agoWho wouldn't want to be the happiest person to ever live? That seems to be a happy moment in itself.
- naasking 9y agoBecause there's the possibility of being even happier. Just because we're happy, doesn't mean we're not greedy.
- yters 9y agoAha! So a better happiness equation is both cumulative and a ratio. If G is the cumulative number of good moments and B is bad moments, happiness is (rounding the happiness ratio to 3): happiness = (G/B-3)*G = G^2/B-3G Seems there could be a physics of happiness from this equation.
- lulmerchant 9y agoMy own (non-scientific) opinion is related to this. In my experience, resistance to negative emotions is a much more crucial ingredient to happiness. As I’ve been gradually maturing during my life, I think the biggest improvement is that I’m quite emotionally stable. Small and unimportant things don’t bother me much at all, which really helps when it comes to leading a happy and fulfilling life. Especially as negative experiences are supposed to have a greater impact that positive ones.