The Self Mastery Challenge – Week #3 Happiness and Habits

22nd July 2024

Alfredo Ramos Martínez (Mexican, 1871-1946), Vendedoras de Frutas, about 1937

“I think one may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by making one’s own life and environment beautiful, so far as one’s power reaches. This includes moral beauty, one of the qualities of humanity…”
Robinson Jeffers ‘The wild God of the world: An anthology of Robinson Jeffers’

Would you like to be HAPPY?

Dumb question eh?

But does that mean happy for a moment? Happy for a day? A month? A year? A lifetime? Generally happy? Mostly happy?

Daniel Kahneman says the experiencing self may experience happiness in the moment but if the remembering self doesn’t remember that you have been happy then you won’t be a happy person.

Imagine you go to see an Opera by a renowned performer – you’ve booked tickets well in advance, you’ve waited patiently in anticipation and when the night arrives you have put on your best outfit gone to the pre-show gathering to mingle – you’re having a great time. The opera begins …