Title: The Happiness Hypothesis Pdf Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Published Date: 2006-12-26
Page: 320
Jonathan Haidt Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is a social psychologist whose research examines morality and the moral emotions. He is the author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, and the co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.
Happiness is Fleeting - and that's Okay! I have struggled with chasing happiness for a long time, and realized that every time I *thought* there was something I could do or buy to be happy, it would provide little to no relief to my depression. If I could just lose weight, if I could just change jobs, if I could just buy a home, if I could just find a loving boyfriend, and so on. I saw happiness as an end-goal, and bought this book to try and find the magical formula to make my life complete. SPOILER ALERT - that isn't what this is. This book combines science, religious texts, and ancient ideas to explain how everything we think we know about happiness is pretty much wrong. We think we won't be as happy as someone else who is more attractive or wealthy, and that anyone less attractive or wealthy than ourselves is surely not as happy as we are. We see ourselves as that middle ground, constantly striving to be more like those "above" us and less like those "below" us, but it is all in vain. We may be happy when we hit that weight-loss goal or get a promotion, but we soon become accustomed to that part of life and our happiness returns to a set-point. This makes sense from an evoluntionary standpoint in that we should constantly strive to be "better" to make ourselves more competitive and produce more successful offspring. If everyone could reach point X and be happy, there may be no motivation or desire to go further. This book truly changed my perspective on happiness and motivated me to learn more about the subject. I can honestly say that I am a happier person for reading it.I truly loved the book. “Where does happiness come from? There are several different “happiness hypotheses.” One is that happiness comes from getting what you want, but we all know (and research confirms) that such happiness is short-lived. A more promising hypothesis is that happiness comes from within and cannot be obtained by making the world conform to your desires. This idea was widespread in the ancient world: Buddha in India and the Stoic philosophers in ancient Greece and Rome all counseled people to break their emotional attachments to people and events, which are always unpredictable and uncontrollable, and to cultivate instead an attitude of acceptance. This ancient idea deserves respect, and it is certainly true that changing your mind is usually a more effective response to frustration than is changing the world. However, I will present evidence that this second version of the happiness hypothesis is wrong. Recent research shows that there are some things worth striving for; there are some external conditions of life that can make you lastingly happier. One of these conditions is relatedness—the bonds we form, and need to form, with others. I’ll present research showing where love comes from, why passionate love always cools, and what kind of love is “true” love. I’ll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.”~ Jonathan Haidt from The Happiness HypothesisThat’s officially the longest intro quote of any of the Notes I’ve created so far but OMG. Makes you wanna read the whole book, eh?! :)Jonathan Haidt is a leading positive psychology researcher/professor at the University of Virginia and this book is an incredible look at ten “Great Ideas” from ancient wisdom that he brilliantly analyzes in the light of modern science while helping us apply the super practical stuff to our 21st century lives. It’s a great blend of intellectual rigor, philosophical wisdom and nuts and-bolts practicality that I highly recommend.If this Note resonates with you, I *definitely* think you’ll love the book. I put it up there with Sonja Lyubomirsky’s How of Happiness and Tal Ben-Shahar’s Pursuit of Perfect and Happier as some must-read positive psychology goodness.Here are some of the Big Ideas:1. The Rider & The Elephant - Learn to ride your elephant!2. Epiphanies - And lasting change.3. Meditation - The magic pill.4. Cognitive Therapy - It works.5. Pulling the Splinter - The joy of taking responsibility.Let’s get clear on our ultimate purpose and move toward it, lest we step in other people’s elephant poop, yo! :)More goodness— including PhilosophersNotes on 300+ books in our *OPTIMIZE* membership program. Find out more at brianjohnson . me.
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