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without money and happiness quite a bit on the show and they're good number of
studies indicating that all you need is about seventy five thousand dollars in
an annual salary to happy because it's not necessarily about how much money you
make
it's about how comfortable you are never and when you're making about seventy
five thousand dollars
usually a pretty comfortable a lot of money
some house and ours is a lot of money has been a lot of people don't think
that i know i know com but you know there's always been like this
misconception that you need to be a millionaire to truly be happy and of
course that's not the truth
you wanna live comfortably you want to make sure that you can provide the
bitterness as one of more than just a bit necessities
i would like to be at seventy five thousand dollars that's usually the
sweet spot after that
you do get happy here but you see diminishing and return uh... so that's a
kind of the general consensus among most researchers
but also depends on where you spend your money
and dad that's what i love about how michael norton he's an associate
professor at harvard business school and up
along with his call off their elizabeth dunn they address
the way people spend money and what makes sense
happiness
and as you can imagine material goods don't actually making a very happy are
usually when you spend the money on experiences you're more likely to happen
fulfilled
and happy life
so i did mention two things that really set out to the first is social
interaction
are usually if you spend your money on like a nice meal with your friends
you feel better because you have that social interaction you connect with
people and that is more likely to give u pleasure as opposed to buying expensive
television it's not better turn out to dinner alone
yet you know that i have this one says that she's like confident after going to
be identified herself
the u_n_ there if you had absolutely no way yet
it
dot blots keeping something about experiences they they actually made a
comment about buying experiences instead stalls and commit listed under south
gadgets
news anchor books lotteries and so on music and blocks as anything if your
insights for a meeting with the attitude we're to one thousand two stuff that's
going to do
i think i think music is
definitely something that's interest in my life that i love music works you and
i still have reading a book that's like that can be what you do all day that's
energy like it's an intimate but and this is an argument can be made about
television people can make the argument that
while watching a television show is an experience
race i'm sure
little political happier that i have t_v_ i have friends who don't have to be
they live under rocks
urinating trying to have conversations with them about anything that's
happening in pop culture so i am not want to have a tv
how relied on in my previous because i started watching content on like netflix
and hulu
and so i think that's technically watching yahoo technically watching tv
baghdad no longer have cable have like no but i need to buy nintendo is
something to get the basic channels that i've just come closer and closer
canceling my kids i really am because i i was so much a netflix and have a can
contribute to the area
all god ok for all just get some of these feel like and
asap
i'll help you out with that we are not going to have once carrollton decoupled
from the cable providers and starts fad ready h_b_o_ guy was a stand-alone
services here at oceana absolutely different absolutely
um... they also talk about anticipation which i thought was fascinating in some
of the church
so people actually happier
anticipating abhi ke shame upon experience that their you know looking
forward to
as opposed to just experiencing it yeah like of course you're gonna have a good
time when you go on vacation you're gonna be
uh... overjoyed to get a joy the pleasure of it whatever
but the anticipation of that event is actually something that makes you
more happy you know think about how different it feels
if you're driving if you're flying if your basically traveling somewhere new
mean
think about how different the journey there feels in the journey back home
even in terms of what your perception of time yet significantly different because
you're so excited
about going somewhere you have these ideas in your head of what it's going to
be like
which it almost everything that we like that that's fantasy is yeah sometimes
even better than the real thing sometimes lead but maybe cation i don't
want to book it
too close to like the current day yeah like i want to book a month in advance
because eighty save money of course but also i want something to really look
forward and i get excited like a puppet manipulate this arrives for a few months
and then one day cation yeah come back to work in this business as usual here