What's the deal with randomly italicizing words? Annoying trend I have seen a lot lately. Dunno how this got 4.4k claps. Nothing that interesting here. Seems like medium is an inverse-meritocracy where the most unoriginal stuff written for marketers and by marketers get all the votes and promotion and traffic.
Happiness comes from the attainment status and progress, and those two things tend to be correlated. That's why beating a video game level or getting an award or promotion makes you happy. it does not come from reflecting on failure or any abstract philosophical belief/teaching. The idea that happiness is encoded in failure seems ludicrous unless one means not repeating mistakes, but that is learning , which is not the same as happiness as an emotion. Not a fan of stoicism either. I think people should express how they feel. Bottling it up only makes it worse later.
Happiness comes from the attainment status and progress, and those two things tend to be correlated. That's why beating a video game level or getting an award or promotion makes you happy. it does not come from reflecting on failure or any abstract philosophical belief/teaching. The idea that happiness is encoded in failure seems ludicrous unless one means not repeating mistakes, but that is learning , which is not the same as happiness as an emotion. Not a fan of stoicism either. I think people should express how they feel. Bottling it up only makes it worse later.