Happiness is earning $60,000/year
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Happiness is earning $60,000/year
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#2Happiness is not having others try to tell you what makes you happy based off of some study.
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#3If you make too little money, all you think about is money.
If you make too much money, all you think about it money.
I'd have to agree with this article. Personally, I think much of happiness comes from finding the middle ground where you don't don't have to think about money.
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#4If you make too little money, all you think about is money. If you make too much money, all you think about it money. I'd have to agree with this article. Personally, I think much of happiness comes from finding the middle ground where you don't don't have to think about money.
yes there has been that "Carrot and Stick" TED talk posted here twice in the last 2 weeks; that basically helped me understand that if you can...
"Take money off the table, pay people enough to not have to think about money" ~ thats when they will perform best.
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#5Nop, happiness is about having $10M in assets and earning $1M a year in royalties.
Believe me.
Until then, keep coding...
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#6Happiness is not having others try to tell you what makes you happy based off of some study.
I hold the same philosophy with regard to cigarettes. I'll decide for myself what's carcinogenic, thank you very much.
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#7If you make too little money, all you think about is money. If you make too much money, all you think about it money. I'd have to agree with this article. Personally, I think much of happiness comes from finding the middle ground where you don't don't have to think about money.
yes there has been that "Carrot and Stick" TED talk posted here twice in the last 2 weeks; that basically helped me understand that if you can... "Take money off the table, pay people enough to not have to think about money" ~ thats when they will perform best.
Ah, having just enough money to not think about money sounds about right :)
I like this blog post that says that money can buy you happiness... if you spend it right (like being with the right people like another poster suggests, or spending it on "positive experiences" like this suggests):
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201005/...
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#8I suspect this is a case of using a metric (money) to explain a complex fact (what makes us happy).
Yes, $60,000/yr may make you happy. But I suspect that is about being comfortable and able to live without concern (over money issues, for example). I expect that if you gave a control group a comfortable life / success and just $1,000 a year then a large part would also be happy. Reverse would apply to a group with $100K but put through merry hell :)
A better conclusion would be that happiness is probably being comfortable and feeling successful etc.
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#9I suspect this is a case of using a metric (money) to explain a complex fact (what makes us happy). Yes, $60,000/yr may make you happy. But I suspect that is about being comfortable and able to live without concern (over money issues, for example). I expect that if you gave a control group a comfortable life / success and just $1,000 a year then a large part would also be happy. Reverse would apply to a group with $1…
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#10The inverse seems kind of obvious - poverty sucks