Archive for the 'Finding Happiness' Category

Happiness – factors that make a difference

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Wealth
Money builds the basis for your happiness but don’t buy you happiness. If your basic needs are met, money seems not to make a big difference anymore. But they make a big difference to feed your fundamental needs.
Desire
We all think that one more thing to buy or achieve and will be happy. But this is […]

Modeling Happiness

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

It seems that we humans aren’t too good at finding happiness, even if it’s the main reason for why we do anything.
In our pursuit of happiness, we may rely only on our own mind, especially on our imagination and memory, or we can use the current experiences of the others.
Daniel Gilbert in his new book […]

Our Daily “Psychological Background”

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Our daily life begins, progress and end on a “psychological background”. Through “psychological background” I mean all our daily thoughts, beliefs and attitudes that don’t play the leading part of our day, but the second one. They are in the background, not in the spotlight, of our daily buzz, but this doesn’t mean they are […]

Try and Measure your Patience

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

If you made shopping quite before Christmas Days, you probably stood in line for minutes or hours to buy presents, food, etc. While shopping on crowded days you have to choose the shortest possible line to stand in, if you want not to wait for a long time. But even so you have to wait […]