| One of the most remarkable findings in social psychology is just how many poor people say they are satisfied with their lives à ?? very often a majority of them, even in harsh environments like the slums of Calcutta. "The problem is that life satisfaction doesnà ??t really mean what we tend to think it means. For you can reasonably be satisfied with your life even if you think your life is going badly for you, and even if you feel bad. To be satisfied is just to regard your life as going well enough it is satisfactory. Similarly, you might be satisfied with a hard life because you care about things besides avoiding misery". Hayborn suggests that "it is misleading to equate satisfaction with happiness, even if it is perfectly ordinary to talk that way at times... So how else might we define happiness? There is another approach popular among researchers à ?? one that focuses on feelings.,," |
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