📓 investing in happiness

• fairly dense info-dump/survey of different contemporary (and slightly pop-sci leaning) science of happiness(from an investment nerd)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNZk-N6uDcg

• experienced happiness
  • feeling good (now)
  • short-term
  • ~hedonia
• reflective happiness
  • feeling "fulfilled"
  • long-term
  • "living well"
  • ~eudaimonia
  • ~living up to your potential
  • ~keeping up with the joneses
  • comparing vs. best imagined possible life for yourself

• PERMA model (components of well being)
  • positive emotion (feeling good)
  • engagement (flow)
  • relationships
  • meaning (purpose beyond self)
  • accomplishment (achieving valued goals)

• "short-term pleasure often in conflict with long-term "fulfillment"
• people often wrong about what will make them happy
• Portnoy's "Four C's" (what matters to humans):
  • connection (the need to belong)
  • control (the need to direct one's own destiny)
  • competence (the need to be good at something worthwhile)
  • context (the need for purpose outside oneself)

• anti-goals - focus on avoiding the things you know you dislike

(from ACT:)

• focus on values - un-achievable ways of everyday being
• focus on the now - be less heady / reflective
• gratitude - recognizing and valuing more of what you already have, (and being content with it), rather than ruminating on what you don't