Comments on: Why Meditating Will Make You Happier Than Succeeding http://livewithoutconflict.com/blog/2008/04/02/why-meditating-will-make-you-happier-than-succeeding/ Reduce Stress To A Minimum In Your Life. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: case http://livewithoutconflict.com/blog/2008/04/02/why-meditating-will-make-you-happier-than-succeeding/#comment-376 case Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:16:42 +0000 http://livewithoutconflict.com/blog/2008/04/02/why-meditating-will-make-you-happier-than-succeeding/#comment-376 orgasim is the only thing that has made me happy orgasim
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]]> By: Rob McPhillips http://livewithoutconflict.com/blog/2008/04/02/why-meditating-will-make-you-happier-than-succeeding/#comment-89 Rob McPhillips Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:56:56 +0000 http://livewithoutconflict.com/blog/2008/04/02/why-meditating-will-make-you-happier-than-succeeding/#comment-89 Have you ever felt trapped, in a situation, or emotionally, believed there is nothing you could do to change it and still felt happy? Have you ever felt trapped, in a situation, or emotionally, believed there is nothing you could do to change it and still felt happy?

]]> By: Joe Fox http://livewithoutconflict.com/blog/2008/04/02/why-meditating-will-make-you-happier-than-succeeding/#comment-87 Joe Fox Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:22:23 +0000 http://livewithoutconflict.com/blog/2008/04/02/why-meditating-will-make-you-happier-than-succeeding/#comment-87 "To be happy, requires freedom. Or more accurately, the perception of freedom." Can we be sure about that? Dan Gilbert's scientific research into happiness suggests otherwise. What he has discovered is that what we think will make us happy and what we think will make us unhappy rarely do so in either case. Essentially the problem is that we use our imagination to consider what will make us happy or not but our imagination doesn't use a full picture. There's some similarity between this and the point that you're making here, that our imagination of what will make us happy leaves out all the other stuff that might not bring us the happiness we imagine that it will. You can watch Dan Gilbert's presentation at TED on TED.com or YouTube.com or read his book, Stumbling On Happiness. An eye-opening read. His conclusion is that to discover if something will make us happy we shouldn't rely on our imaginations (because they are almost always wrong) but find someone who has acheived that goal and see if they are happy. “To be happy, requires freedom. Or more accurately, the perception of freedom.”

Can we be sure about that? Dan Gilbert’s scientific research into happiness suggests otherwise. What he has discovered is that what we think will make us happy and what we think will make us unhappy rarely do so in either case. Essentially the problem is that we use our imagination to consider what will make us happy or not but our imagination doesn’t use a full picture. There’s some similarity between this and the point that you’re making here, that our imagination of what will make us happy leaves out all the other stuff that might not bring us the happiness we imagine that it will.

You can watch Dan Gilbert’s presentation at TED on TED.com or YouTube.com or read his book, Stumbling On Happiness. An eye-opening read. His conclusion is that to discover if something will make us happy we shouldn’t rely on our imaginations (because they are almost always wrong) but find someone who has acheived that goal and see if they are happy.

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