55 min

Happiness Stories of Emotional Granularity

    • Mental Health

If we can perceive the complexity of happiness, then we also can grasp the uncertainty with which happiness is obtained. If we can see that happy people aren’t happy because they’re good, and unhappy people aren’t unhappy because they’re bad, we might be able to summon more compassion for people in moments of unhappiness, and more humility when we happen to find ourselves in a moment of happiness.

If we can perceive the complexity of happiness, then we also can grasp the uncertainty with which happiness is obtained. If we can see that happy people aren’t happy because they’re good, and unhappy people aren’t unhappy because they’re bad, we might be able to summon more compassion for people in moments of unhappiness, and more humility when we happen to find ourselves in a moment of happiness.

55 min