On 8/28/13 9:26 AM August 28, 2013, Thaths wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Charles Haynes <[email protected]>wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote:
Isn't improving one's life just a collection of individual life hacks?
Some improvements can be achieved by a sequence of locally optimal smaller
improvements, but not all.
Which is to say, you may not be able to hack your way to happiness.
"may not" is not the same as "will not", right? I wonder why some people
are more successful at this than others. I suspect debilitating conditions
like clinical depression makes it difficult for some to achieve happiness.
It's probably complicated. I think, though, that a good serviceable set
of beliefs and attitudes can really help a person pull herself up by the
bootstraps. Something like the placebo effect for lifehacking. It works
at least in part because you believe you can do it. If it doesn't work,
the right attitude can help you keep trying different things until you
hit on something that does work instead of giving up when you hit the
first snag.
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