In the face of the body of literature underscoring the social and emotional benefits of happiness, comes the argument that too much happiness is not good for us.
Given the unprecedented level of unhappiness at companies and the direct link between happiness and business outcomes, the question is NOT whether happiness should matter to companies.
For a welfare statist, though, your happiness is not a morally legitimate goal.
That to me shows that there is not happiness in their hearts.
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The study provides evidence that happiness is determined not only by relative income, but also by absolute income.
Unemployment is known to damage happiness because not working falls short of social expectations.
Engagement at work is not the same as happiness, but you need engagement to achieve happiness.
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NBC's The Office is more about success and happiness, not because success necessarily equals happiness, but because in the lives of these office characters, happiness often begets success.
The relentless, single-minded dedication to one's passions that Rand seems to favor requires a coldness of the soul, a narrowing of one's humanity--the natural interest in the fortune of others that Smith alludes to--that most people find is not exactly conducive to their happiness.
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He basically -- his basic point is he is not happy with a certain trigger happiness in the world that exists.
But there is growing interest in the study of happiness, not just among geneticists but also among economists and policymakers dissatisfied with current ways of measuring humanity's achievements.
All the money in the world is not going to buy your family's happiness.
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Happiness is a raw, human emotion not something that can be tracked like calories and purchases.
The negative effect on reported levels of happiness of being paid less than your peers is not visible for people aged under 45.
Although our Creator endowed each of us with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as is all too evident, he did not guarantee us the exercise of those rights.
Happiness is a treadmill of a goal for people who are not happy by nature.
Yet it is not self-evident that less work would mean more happiness.
The point here is that "liberty" and "the pursuit of happiness" are not synonyms but distinct concepts--rights that are mostly in harmony but not necessarily always so.
But this is nonsense: The Declaration promises people the right to the pursuit of happiness, not to happiness itself, much less to equal happiness.
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Money is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the good life, for happiness and wisdom.
We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.
The Legatum study does not look at happiness per se but prosperity, which my colleague Christopher Helman argues is a pretty good proxy.
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That is why I say I do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.
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Yet this is not to deny his main point: the pursuit of material comforts does not always lead to happiness.
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