PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Royal Victorian Order, Laozi, Motivation
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Chase after money and security and your heat will never unclench care about other people"s approval and you will be their prisoner. The only path to serenity lao tzu. Yes: money provides you with the opportunity, alleviation of stress, experience, diminishing returns. Spending money on experience is different from spending money on materials. No: unless you enjoy what you are doing to acquire money, it can be stressful. There is no guarantee that poverty prevents happiness or that richness produces happiness. How much you spend your resources in trying to obtain wealth influences your happiness; pursuing money as an end in itself (leaving out other nourishing aspects of life) Research; research in us or canada show very correlation between money and happiness (0. 1 variation; 1% of population) If study in the international level, see correlation of 0. 8 between money and happiness; alleviation of negativity (stress), not meeting their basic necessities.