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Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness
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#472Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Good luck getting a job, unhappy people… Since employment is one of the main sources of unhappiness I assume this will create an oscillating state of happy unemployed - unhappy employed people perpectually in and out of jobs as their happiness dips below a certain threshold.
Rather, it creates attrition, where people leave jobs after 2-3-4 years always hoping the next one will be less bad. It's so common in the software industry it's seen as normal.
I generally leave jobs after 2-3 years because:
1. It was a contractor position and the project was over.
2. I got tired of the project and needed something new, even though the place was great in other regards.
3. I got an offer with more money.
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#473Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd flip the script. Start willing yourself to be super positive, interested and committed, and no matter what you'll get much better. More than that, you'll become better liked in the eyes of people who write the checks, and overall be considered more indispensable. That will parlay into additional opportunities, responsibilities and eventually pay. After that, leverage to either negotiate pay, or attract interest f…
Is this the thing that I see in many Americans giving presentations? They are always uncomfortably excited and happy, regardless of what they are presenting. I get it, you're excited, but please accept that I'm here for the information, not your personal endorphin levels. /rant off.... Sorry just came out of a workshop where the presenter spent half the time trying to get a bunch of technical people excited rather th…
There's a difference between putting on a show, and genuinely being into whatever it is you're doing. What you're responding to is the former. What I'm suggesting is the latter.
Re: Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness
#474Earlier quoted context omitted.
Brownie points, of course. Were you happier when you were homeless and needed to rely on other people's pity to survive than when you could buy your own food due to your job? I would find it rather surprising if you were. I supposed it could be that you're from one of these places where workers' rights aren't really a thing or that you can survive on your own without monies, however.
I have certainly been happier in situations of no work than in some situations of work and happier in some conditions of being homeless than in some having a home, but then happiness is a relative thing and I have never had what one generally refers to as a happy life. It is true that having a home was in itself not the cause of my unhappiness, whereas being homeless was the exact cause. As far as being unhappy when…
Huh, that's a first. I've never met someone who would prefer to not have fresh food and shelter than work for it, except for places where worker's rights aren't a thing.
>so for perhaps 2 hours a day
Didn't you find it mighty stressful not knowing if you'll get food, get fucked by the weather or other people?
The people I know who live/lived on the streets always preferred any job to it. But that might be a thing related to Brazilian streets (the unprovoked violence ain't no joke)
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#475As someone stuck in the lower class almost unable to work and any work I do is very distressing because I'm someone who is chronically disabled with chronic debilitating pain and an array of other problems that are no fault of my own: Ain't this some bullshit. It sure is easy for the rich to say "just be happy", "just follow your goals" etc. It's so easy for people with opportunities to say that, is it any wonder the richest people I know are also the happiest.. I wouldn't be surprised if the people in this study are in higher positions than the rest and have less stress and demands put on them in their daily lives.
Re: Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness
#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
Employment is a common source of unhappiness. That to be a source at all requires a job. If you are unemployed you aren't just "less unhappy about your employment", you don't have any. I'd wager economic instability far outweighs the negatives of one's employment. After all, it's why many people still attend their jobs. I'd be absolutely amazed if you managed to disprove him, because nothing I've ever observed or exp…
he said "I see you've never been under any economic hardship ever in your life." I said "so what do I win if I disprove your 'I see'?" you said: "I'd be absolutely amazed if you managed to disprove him, because nothing I've ever observed or experienced seems to fit into it. " So, you've spent your whole life tracking my levels of economic hardship? What organization do you work for? to say it another way, as I have l…
No.
It's your claim that poverty makes you happier than employment on some average. The last thing he said and the only relevant thing to even discuss here.
Re: Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness
#477Earlier quoted context omitted.
Employment is a common source of unhappiness. That to be a source at all requires a job. If you are unemployed you aren't just "less unhappy about your employment", you don't have any. I'd wager economic instability far outweighs the negatives of one's employment. After all, it's why many people still attend their jobs. I'd be absolutely amazed if you managed to disprove him, because nothing I've ever observed or exp…
Your parent commenter was saying that they have , in fact, faced economic hardships, countering the implication that their opinion was underinformed because they hadn't.
He was replying to someone challenging his claim that unemployment makes you happier than being employed, and so am I.