Cheating Our Brains into Happiness Jane McGonigal is a prominent game developer who has dedicated her recent years to developing games that try to help the world out instead of just entertaining a few. In the tenth chapter of her book Reality is Broken‚ she argues that happiness levels in the United States and around the world are alarmingly low‚ and people are very depressed. She then introduces a term called “Happiness Hacking”. McGonigal herself defines it as “…the experimental design practice
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Happiness Project According to Shawn we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work and create more success‚ happiness and reward in our lives. The three greatest predictors of happiness are optimism (the belief your behavior will eventually matter)‚ social connection‚ and how we perceive stress (as a challenge or as a threat). If we want to raise happiness we need to make both mindset and behavior shifts. The five key steps that we can take each
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Happiness is one of the most common feelings of human being. A wise man once said: “Life is an adventure of finding happiness”. The causes of it are varied‚ but in most cases can be clarified into three reasons. First‚ it appears that being able to do things as pleased is a major source of happiness. This depends on what kind of personalities different people have. An introvert can feel happy when reading a book under a tree while an extrovert enjoys playing with friends. This factor is so simple
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Technology and happiness Technology has changed our lives but has it made our lives any better? Some believe technology makes people happier because‚ people want to upgrade their electronics to new‚ more efficient pieces of equipment. The question is rather or not this new advances technology leads to happiness. Technology has created some wonders. We have walked the moon‚ made aviation‚ land‚ water‚ and rail transport possible and we have broken the sound barrier. People have been progressing for
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professionally‚ creatively‚ and socially healthy & well rounded individual. Happiness involves being really alive and not just existing. Aristotle believes that a person should work hard doing what they love‚ they also shouldn’t devote their lives to acquiring riches since riches don’t provide happiness. One should also reject fame and public success to become happy as self sufficiency is believed to provide happiness. Happiness is a process starting from infancy. A happy life is a life where spiritual
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Can money buy you happiness? The general belief is that the rich tend to pamper their children by buying them all sorts of “toys”‚ while the poorer children do not do this because they cannot afford to. It is usually presented in stories- especially in movies - that rich children are bad while those from poorer families struggle all their lives. Consequently it may be believed that children from rich families are happier than those from poorer ones. This may be the case in some instances‚ but is
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Causes of Happiness Happiness is the thing that most of people are looking for in life. It is a mixed complicated feeling between pleasure and joy. Feeling happy is always linked with smile and it is depending on many different things that depend on how and what does a person linked the meanings or causes of happiness to‚ and it is different in the same person through his/her life. There are so many things that make people happy and these things are different from a person to another. One
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Life is full of happy days and sad days‚ the latter being more common in life. A happy day is that day when everything seems to go well with life and loved ones‚ though these happy days are also different from each other due to the degree of happiness they impart. The happiest day of my life is the day when my elder brother graduated from the IIT‚ Delhi. One would wonder why and how should that event make me so very happy‚ that‚ I earmark it as the happiest day of my life. Yes‚ I call this day as
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“Delivering Happiness”‚ by Tony Hsieh‚ the founder and CEO of Zappos. Envision‚ create‚ and believe in your own universe‚ and the universe will form around you-biggest driver for developing the passion to serve one’s purpose There are a few key things that I took away from Delivering Happiness‚ and summarized below: 1. People Matter : Employees and customers alike are REALLY important * Zappos attributes much of its success to its investment into customer service‚ culture‚ and employee
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The Secret of Happiness There was a wonderful fable about an orphan girl who had no family to love her. One day she felt so lonely and decided to walk through a meadow when she notices a butterfly struggling to free itself from the thorn bush. The young girl carefully released her and instead of flying away‚ the butterfly turned into a beautiful fairy. Because of her kindness the fairy would grant her a wish. The little girl replied that she want to be happy. Then‚ the fairy leaned toward her
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