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Even beyond correlation not proving causation, it doesn't sound surprising to me that unhappy people are looking for ways to become happy, but happy people aren
by cwp 14y ago
Even beyond correlation not proving causation, it doesn't sound surprising to me that unhappy people are looking for ways to become happy, but happy people aren't. You might equally conclude that restaurants make people hungry.
- nostromo 14y ago"...but they certainly don't seem to be helpful either." If people left restaurants hungry, wouldn't you suspect they're not living up to their mission?
- cwp 14y agoI do notice that people invariably get hungry within hours of leaving a restaurant. Clearly restaurants cause hunger. More seriously, it's not surprising that self-help doesn't produce instant results. People have widely varied and complex problems. It'll probably take a while to find the right advice, put into practice and see the desired results. Sure, there's a lot self-help gurus out there exploiting desperate people. But there's also a lot of genuinely helpful advice out there and people who benefit from it.