happiness

“Today I believe that happiness is it's really a default state. It's what's there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life.”

“To some extent, you know, our attitude in life, our mood, our happiness levels, depression levels, these are also habits.”

“There is virtually no correlation between the amount of money one has and one's happiness that's pretty well known past a certain basic The factor that's the highest correlation is whether is relationships, sense of community across societies.”

“A recipe for happiness is to help our child over and over again choose to give up what they want at that moment for something they actually want more.”

“When you really do that work, what you find is that the effect of the correlation between religion and happiness seems to be pretty fully mediated by those religious behaviors. So going to church, doing nice things for other people, you know, taking part in al…”

“You know, there's studies that look at people who get those wonderful things, and yeah, you get a little happiness boost for a little while, but it doesn't seem to last. Lasting happiness comes from something else.”

“There's so much evidence that when we're mind wandering, when we're not fully present, that that's a time when we're also not very happy.”

“You know, even the heritability of happiness is, is lower than you might expect. You know, estimates kind of vary, but it's probably around, you know, 40%, 30%. Like, it's not that all the variants and the happy people that you see out there in the world is li…”

“Happiness is not an average rate, man. It's a rate of change. You gotta go thinking in calculus again, right? If a person is sitting still, no matter where they're at, whether they have a bunch, let's use money. If a person has a bunch of money or no money, th…”

“A lot of people say, you know, if you want to be happy, don't have expectations, and I think that's a really good way to be unhappy for the rest of your life, because people, if you don't have expectations, there, you will just put up with everything, right? I…”

“The researchers can tell you, and there's a lot of good research on this, making happiness your goal is a way to make you unhappy.”

“And it's this thing of just, like, if your expectations shift, then the littlest thing can make you upset. It's like, when you go to the quiet car, yes, it is quieter, but you also have this, like, sound debt that comes with it, you could say. This invisible s…”

“Like what can money do to make you happier? Because there's no other purpose. There's nothing else that you should even think about other than that.”

“It shows that happiness increases post 500 K in income or up to 500 K in income. After 500 K, there's sort of these plateaus, and it's not really materially different.”

“Happiness is always a fleeting emotion. Like most people are rarely happy for more than a couple minutes at a time. And I think it's very similar to humor, where if I tell you a very funny joke, you don't laugh for 10 years. You laugh for a couple minutes. Hum…”

“What I think is true. Is that on average, people who have more money tend to have fewer bad days, but I don't know if they have more better days.”