Xamanismo ColetivoโDoes #money buy #happiness?
The deeper insight in #Killingsworth's original research, the one almost nobody talks about, is the part that should sit with you longer than the income numbers. The #TrackYourHappiness app had been telling him for years that the single biggest predictor of in-the-moment well-being is not money at all. It is whether your #mind is on the thing you are doing.
His most cited paper, written with Daniel Gilbert at Harvard, is titled A #WanderingMind Is an Unhappy Mind. The data from the app showed that people are mentally absent from what they are doing 47 percent of the time, and that #mentalabsence is one of the strongest predictors of #unhappiness in the entire dataset. More predictive than income. More predictive than the activity itself. More predictive than almost any demographic variable you could measure.โ
Ihtesham Ali (@ihtesham2005) on X
Does money buy happiness? A Princeton Nobel laureate said no above $75,000. A Penn researcher with 1.7 million data points said yes. The day they sat down together to settle the fight, the answer they reached should change how you think about your own life. The Nobel laureate is
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