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You can, but most people have a built-in defense mechanism for dealing with excessive happiness; they indulge invented troubles and make themselves miserable.
by topspin 7y ago
You can, but most people have a built-in defense mechanism for dealing with excessive happiness; they indulge invented troubles and make themselves miserable. Some large fraction of contemporary news headlines are attributable to this phenomenon; most people aren't actually clever enough to invent their own troubles so they adopt the invented troubles created by others.
- mottosso 7y agoI also have this view. Curious whether you know of any resources to read up on this some more? It's one of those things that's hard to search for.
- everdev 7y agoSome people refer to this as the "upper limit problem" or "upper limit theory" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-personal-renaissance/201401/do-you-sabotage-yourself-when-you-reach-your-goals https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-personal-renais...