The Pursuit Of Happiness

achieved. So for example, when a person completes a college degree, we can assume that the person is going to be significantly happier with himself or herself because a value has just been gained. But no matter what the size of the value is the basic principle is the same: gaining values is what results in happiness.

Aristotle observed that external goods are necessary for eudemonia, and he was right. A person cannot truly grow and become better with the absence of material goods, even if those material goods are not many. And with that said, happiness is not transferable between person to person. Happiness is an individual thing that has to be obtained. It cannot be given to someone by someone else, it cannot be borrowed and it cannot be

The author’s goal was to discover if thinking about your personal time and managing that well, rather than focusing solely on money makes you a happier person (Mogilner 2011: 1348–1354). The results of this were that yes, focusing on your personal time instead of just being solely money driven does make you a happier person. There has to be a balance between your money and time, which Mogilner found. It cannot be one sided. To achieve those values you have to have the balance between the

But money can be a huge factor in achieving happiness. It is important to realize that saying, “money cannot buy happiness,” can be a dangerous phrase to live by.

On one hand, it is just plan bad advice to live by; it is counterproductive to someone’s life satisfaction and happiness. Since money can contribute to happiness, then it is an important ingredient and component to living a happy life and by insisting this is not true it can close off the essential route to happiness. It closes off the path that could bring individuals to gain these values that make them overall more satisfied. To console individuals away from money could hinder their ability to eventually be a happy person.

On a more important level, to drive people away from the pursuit of happiness, actually knowing the things it can make possible and it can fulfillment a better overall life, would be discouraging the journey to find happiness. Therefore that would have an overall negative impact on someone’s