Achieving Fame, Wealth And Beauty Are Psychological Dead Ends, Study Says
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#2"I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better."
-- Mae West
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#3> The findings in this study support Self-Determination Theory, a well-established theory of human motivation developed by two of the paper's authors, Deci and fellow University psychologist Richard Ryan.
"well-established" makes me think that this article functions more as a PR piece for SDT. However, I've never heard of SDT befor reading this article, and I find SDT interesting as it seems to be a functional lens through which to study basic human needs - like the need for relationships.
"SDT suggests that there are three basic psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness that underlie growth and development"
"[Self-Determination Theory] begins with the assumption that people are active organisms, with innate tendencies toward psychological growth and development, who strive to master ongoing challenges and to integrate their experiences into a coherent sense of self. This natural human tendency does not operate automatically, however, but instead requires ongoing nutriments and supports from the social environment in order to function effectively."
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#4"I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better." -- Mae West
i've been rich, avg and poor. believe me, avg is better. --me.
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#5Correlation ≠ Causality
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#6Book of Ecclesiastes, nuff said.
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#8Everything other than immortality is a dead end.
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#9And yet the rich economies of today, the ones that support, e.g., scientific research, were mostly built by people pursuing material goals.
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#10And yet the rich economies of today, the ones that support, e.g., scientific research, were mostly built by people pursuing material goals.
Let me put it another way:
1. Benjamin Franklin wrote that when colonial era children were taken by Indian tribes and were later found again, they usually didn't want to come back. Their lives were too easy and carefree now.
2. Egyptian society didn't change for thousands of years. The weather was mild and the Nile would flood every year, providing them plenty of easy food. There was no need to strive for anything.
If happiness is the most important virtue to optimize in society, then I'm forced to believe that pre-colonial American Indian society and ancient Egyptian society were far better than modern societies. But I don't believe that.
Believing in happiness as supreme is a first principle. You can't prove it, you have to accept it as a given and the rest of your philosophy descends from that. Personally, I don't accept this assumption. I think happiness is important, but I think other things like beauty and truth are just as important.