Measure of Happiness
Measure of Happiness
Authentic happiness, has a different definition for every single individual. It falls in a different place of state for all of us, yet happiness is the predominant reason us as humans do any one thing. We do different activities that are all motivated by the same quest of finding happiness. You may think that ‘happiness’ is just falls into one thing, but in the self help novel Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert states that happiness has three different categories. There is moral happiness, which is stationed off of ethics, emotional feelings, and actions. An example would be helping to make and serve food to the homeless. If you’re the person donating the money for that food to be feed to the homeless, you will still gain happiness but in a different way. Helping an individual has moral integrity; this is because it was a chivalrous action that physically helped someone else. “Moral happiness is the fulfillment and satisfaction of doing something right, good and for the sake of another person,”(Gilbert 2007). Emotional happiness is taken from an experience that can only be felt by that one individual. It makes you fell honorable. “This kind of happiness is a subjective according to each person, but it is understood that “feeling happiness” is a good and “pleasant” feeling,” (Gilbert 2007). Pride comes from emotional happiness; it’s a praise of yourself. An example is having a student work hard to have a 4.0 GPA. This could be enjoyable for a student because they are working hard for that grade, and enjoy the accomplishment that comes along with it. Or the fact that it is helping him/her create a better future with the field that he/she wants to go into. Or maybe they need that GPA to get into graduate school. The reasons will be different for everyone but there is still satisfaction. Mortal and emotional happiness are main motivations for any one thing an individual does. Us as humans are constantly
Authentic happiness, has a different definition for every single individual. It falls in a different place of state for all of us, yet happiness is the predominant reason us as humans do any one thing. We do different activities that are all motivated by the same quest of finding happiness. You may think that ‘happiness’ is just falls into one thing, but in the self help novel Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert states that happiness has three different categories. There is moral happiness, which is stationed off of ethics, emotional feelings, and actions. An example would be helping to make and serve food to the homeless. If you’re the person donating the money for that food to be feed to the homeless, you will still gain happiness but in a different way. Helping an individual has moral integrity; this is because it was a chivalrous action that physically helped someone else. “Moral happiness is the fulfillment and satisfaction of doing something right, good and for the sake of another person,”(Gilbert 2007). Emotional happiness is taken from an experience that can only be felt by that one individual. It makes you fell honorable. “This kind of happiness is a subjective according to each person, but it is understood that “feeling happiness” is a good and “pleasant” feeling,” (Gilbert 2007). Pride comes from emotional happiness; it’s a praise of yourself. An example is having a student work hard to have a 4.0 GPA. This could be enjoyable for a student because they are working hard for that grade, and enjoy the accomplishment that comes along with it. Or the fact that it is helping him/her create a better future with the field that he/she wants to go into. Or maybe they need that GPA to get into graduate school. The reasons will be different for everyone but there is still satisfaction. Mortal and emotional happiness are main motivations for any one thing an individual does. Us as humans are constantly
Cited: Parks, Acacia. “Why Valuing Happiness Is a Good Thing After All” Psychology Today. Sussex Directories, Inc. 12 February 2013. Web. 18 October 2013. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-self-help/201302/why-valuing-happiness-is-good-thing-after-all Gilbert, Daniel. Stumbling on Happiness. New York: Vintage Books A Division of Random House Inc. 2007.