OMG, for a moment there i thought you were reading my mind! I've struggled professionally the last few years on this very topic. What makes it annoying is that I have to work on what upper management thinks is important at any given time.That annoys me and probably causes management a great deal of anxiety when I go off path. > I really like to work and the area I've chosen. So while a ship in harbor is safe, that's not what ships are built for.Įven though you're alone in your boat, it's nice to see other lights along the way. We are all sailing into the unknown of the sea together. Without that, we're stuck in harbor.Īs we set out in the world in the many different directions we each may take in life. However, to get anywhere, we must open our sail to the world. The sail allows us to explore and adapt to our environment. The hull protects us from the waves and keeps us safe. Here's a piece I wrote based on that book: One of the better books on this topic is "Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization" by Scott Barry Kaufman There's a popular self-determination theory to explain this further. Maslow's hierarchy of needs to start, but to extend on more modern meaning, your psychological needs are quite important given most people have their basic needs met. This article conflates one definition of happiness to the other while only discussing affective optimisation of hedonism. usually exploited by social and political systems (e.g.to be happy you need good health, very expensive if politics fights life) happiness is a must have If one is feeling lucky for his life and future: happiness aka lucky for parameters of ones life that would be deemed important 300 years ago and should be important in 300 years, conative with a sense of purpose. So if one needs to repeat escalate: hedonism usually exploited by marketing, if you need to pay probably a facade of happiness and unfulfilling. Happiness as “Joyfulness” which is smily face marketing and instant gratification and hedonistic stuff aka buying the new iphone each year and getting bored at it and buying afterwards the next one because under a microscope the photo of the dark side of the moon looks better, when somebody else takes it. Happiness as “Evdemonia” in Aristotelian scripts (Eudemonia in wikipedia) which more accurately translates as having “good demons” with you, which can be interpreted as feeling content/lucky for what you have. There’s the constitutional reference which comes from ancient greek roman philosophy and its origin is Aristotelian This article kind of mixes different definitions of happiness. Oh yes Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That's the most intense I ever felt it, but it was a good experience because it also helped me understand what it was, and I notice it often now - not every time I work out, but often - its there under the tired, post work-out let-down as sort of a "glow". It's different than just putting some stuff in your nose and feeling good or popping a pill and seeing bright colors. A few miles later I felt peace and then ran some more til I felt tired. On that run as I warmed up I felt a giant release. I dumped my bags and went to the gym and got on a treadmill thinking "finally i can burn off some of this energy and anxiety from it". About 10 days after my last real workout and 4 days since any activity involving physical exertion my plane landed and I checked into a hotel that had a gym. After a few days I just felt this building of energy that had nowhere to go - my body had become used to regular exercise. Then for the holidays I was travelling and visiting people and didn't have a chance to exercise. The first time i really understood it was: I had been doing regular running + weights for several months. The exercise high is subtle, it's not a high like smoking a bunch of pot or getting drunk, rather it's a pleasant feeling.
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