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Happiness
Explanations > Emotions Happiness > Happiness
Happiness is a general term for the positive emotion we feel and, if we want to be happier, is worth understanding more.
- Happiness: The basic emotion.
- What makes people happy?: Outer and inner reasons.
- Two pleasures: Body and higher.
- Three pleasures: Sensory, aesthetic, accomplishment.
- Four pleasures: Basic ways of finding happiness.
- Epicurean pleasure: Kinetic and katastemic.
So what?
Learn what makes you happy. Learn what makes other people happy. Then see if you can kill two birds with one stone.
Of course also you can use the promise of happiness in any persuasion.
See also
Emmons, R. (2007) Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You
Happier, Boston:
Houghton Mifflin
Lyubormirsky, S. (2007) The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to
Getting the Life You
Want, Penguin Press
Seligman, M.E.P. (2002), Authentic Happiness, New York: Free Press
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1998) Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement
with Everyday Life
New York: Basic Books
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