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What We’ve Lost to the Internet For Better or Worse & How Money Makes You Happy

Something You Should Know

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What Is Temporary Pleasure?

Long term happiness is setting goals that are based on your values and achieving those goals. To me, what it means to take care of myself is to have enough money so that when i can't work any more, because at a certain points you can't work  you can take care yourself. That u to me, is a form of security. And security is important to me. I think one of the hardest things about happiness is we mistake temporary pleasure for long term happiness. Researchers do a study where they put a quarter in the coin return of a fombot. People who found the quarter rated ther happiness of their entire life much higher than the people who didn't.

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