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By that logic, if someone has 3 happy moments and then kills themselves they are one of the happiests people who has ever lived.
by yters 9y ago
By 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.