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The Happiness Hypothesis could be that happiness comes from within, as Buddha said, or could be that happiness comes from outside. Haidt argues in Chapter Six that the truth might lie between the two extremes and contends that love depends on more than the self and is crucial to happiness.
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Happiness Formula (H = S + C + V) - Happiness = Set Level + Conditions + Voluntary activities
Set Level -The set-point theory of happiness suggests that our level of subjective well-being is determined primarily by heredity and by personality traits ingrained in us early in life, and as a result remains relatively constant throughout our lives
Conditions – Relationships(connection) is one of the most important conditional factors to happiness. You can never adapt if you lose connections.
Voluntary activities – Focus on activities that bring joy to others. Such as showing gratitude, kindness, favours.
Retrain the Elephant – A strong metaphor throughout. Rider = Rational Brain Elephant = Compulsive, Irrational brain. Lasting happiness does not occur through an epiphany. It occurs through focusing on the relationship between rider and elephant and retraining the elephant. You need to consistently act your way to change through tiny habits.
Coherence is a strong theme throughout. Living coherently leads to happiness. This includes coherence between different levels of your personality, personal values, the environment you live and work within, relationships you have.
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- The human mind is a “Rational Rider” on a “Wild Elephant”. Your rational mind is trying to control the wild elephant, which you ride on. This is why it’s so difficult to stick to new years resolutions. We are always trying to control the wild elephant which we ride, using our rational mind.
- We can not control our body naturally with our rational mind. This is because the heart is driven by something called: “The Gut Brain”, which is autonomous, and not affected by rational decisions. It controls our heart rate, and our rational mind can not set the heart rate at will. This effectively controls “How fast the elephant is running”.>>>>CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS<<<
- Our limbic system controls our basic instincts, such as sex and hunger. Our neocortex, which is a newer area of the brain, controls reasoning and inhibitions, which allows us to control the desires which come from the limbic system. It’s been observed that in people where the neocortex is damaged or inhibited, their limbic system takes control and causes them to compulsively eat, or grope people any time they feel sexually aroused.>>>>CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS<<<
- We try to use language to control, advise and plan the movements of the big elephant we ride on. Often times, however, our emotions drive a lot of our actions involuntarily, because they are more powerful than the rider’s language.
- Many self-help books mention the phrase: “Nothing is inherently good or bad; only our thinking makes it so”. So it’s actually possible to change our way of thinking to change our perspective on the world, and therefore happiness. Our elephant, however, sees most things in a negative light. This is because we evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, and in the benefit of self-preservation, we started responding stronger to dangers and other bad things, as opposed to good ones.>>>>CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS<<<
- This evolutionary trait has to do with incentives. When coming in contact with a wild animal, our fear will make us flee the situation, in order to save our life. However, feeling joy over things we had was redundant, because it wouldn’t directly result in us acquiring more of them.>>>>CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS<<<
- Our “inner elephant” constantly overreacts, just like a real elephant reacts to insignificant threats, such as a small mouse in front of him. We may be extremely fearful of giving an upcoming presentation at work. Yet this presentation would never hurt or kill us.
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