If you took the time to watch the video I posted last, then you will already know this information. If not, please read on.
Shawn Anchor talks about how our culture has happiness and success completely backwards. When we strive for happiness, we believe that it will come after we become successful at something. But that is not the case. Think about it, if we succeed at something, yes we will be happy for an amount of time. But that time is temporary.
We will be happy, but only for the time it takes for us to be used to the success we had achieved. Then naturally, we will make another goal for ourselves, and try and succeed again.
What about being happy now, before we succeed? Now, before we have our important jobs, have our big house, have our awesome new car. Why not now, with what we have now.
Well our culture has taught us our entire life’s that happiness comes after being successful at something. So its obvious that we will all think this way, and we wont be happy until we feel important, appreciated, and loved by many.
A World of Nonsense 