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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Groucho Marx once said‚ “While money can’t buy happiness‚ it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” In our modern-capitalistic world‚ money is how people measure success. With money‚ common daily stresses are nonexistent‚ and it’s a conventional goal to gain as much as possible within the prime years of life. Some debate‚ though‚ that life is not the primary component to happiness. Money is cited as the root of all evil‚ and I‚ for one‚ agree. It can be a competition between coworkers
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advantages and disadvantages of money Everybody knows the value of money. Nothing is more powerful than money. In fact‚ if we have no money‚ we cannot buy goods‚ clothes and other necessaries we need. Without money‚ we cannot go to the movies‚ theaters or other amusements places. How can we spend our free time pleasantly on rainy evenings without a color television in front of us? Music from a new hi-fi can relax us quickly after a hard day of work. But how can we satisfy our needs‚ our desires
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Noone can deny the importance of money in life. However‚ whether or not it is actually the only thing people are interested in today is much of controversy. Some people believe that money can buy everything when the others assert that it cannot. From my point of view‚ there are a lot of achievements rather than money although I can live without it. Sometimes‚ I wish to be a millionaire who does not have to worry about life with tons of burden. But it seems to be meaningless for me to come in for
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Best Buy History Best Buy Inc was founded in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music established by Schulze and a partner. They opened their first store in St. Paul‚ Minnesota as an attempt to capture the car stereo retail market. It opened two additional stores and had an initial yearly income of $173‚000. Four years later Schulze bought out his partner and proceeded to expand his retail chain. The company would continue to grow over the next few years‚ hitting the one
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higher salary they can find in order to earn more money for them to spend on‚ because they think money is everything. Even thought money gives people the opportunity to buy what they need‚ it does not buy happiness. Job satisfactions are becoming more crucial to achieve happiness in people’s life. Happiness through jobs can be achieved if people choose the job according to their personality and interest in order for them to use their skills and abilities‚ and sometimes if the job can be done effortless
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original company‚ Imperial Oil‚ originated in Canada in the late 1800’s. Based on timeline history that can be viewed on the Exxon Mobil website‚ Imperial Oil as well as several other independent oil companies would ultimately be bought and taken over by the soon to be renamed Standard Oil. Running concurrently with Standard Oil in the early 1900’s was Mobil Oil. Mobil Oil would also be in positions to buy and take over smaller independent oil companies. In 1999 the two combined resources and merged into
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The Pursuit of Happiness In 1981‚ in San Francisco‚ the smart salesman and family man Chris Gardner invested the family savings in Ostelo National bone-density scanners‚ an apparatus twice more expensive than x-ray with practically the same resolution. The white elephant financially breaks the family‚ bringing troubles to the relationship with his wife that leaves him and moves to New York. Without money and wife‚ but totally committed with his son Christopher‚ Chris sees the chance to fight for
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A History of Happiness The concept of happiness is one that causes controversies‚ some says it doesn’t exist and others revere it. In this particular case one can read the facts of this phenomenon on the article A History of Happiness. In this article is recounted how the view of happiness has changed with time. Furthermore‚ it is compared one against the other. It is mentioned how linguistics shows the happiness as the human kind seeks being well and how this relates to our concept of it.
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"500 years later" reflection “500 years later” is a documentary filmed the tragic and inequality treatment for African people after the slave trade. At the beginning of the sixteenth century‚ European colonists increasingly turned African slaves for labor to Caribbean and Europe. In the 200 years of slave trade‚ hundreds millions of African slaves were shipped to America‚ Caribbean and Europe. The Black inferiority and White supremacy is still dominate in the Western societies and it results
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