If you ask people, what is happiness and what does it means to them, you will probably receive many different answers to your question. Some would say that happiness means being wealthy. Others would say that to for them, happiness means to be healthy. You will find people saying that for them happiness means having love in their life, having many friends, a good job, or achieving a certain goal.
There are people, who believe that the fulfillment of a certain wish would create happiness in their life, but this is not always true. Often, when we get our wish fulfilled, we just move the next wish, without even enjoying and celebrating our achievement.
You may enjoy a good meal, a movie, a show or a vacation, and you may have fun at a party, but this is pleasure and fun, not necessarily happiness.
Different people have different views on causes of happiness from different perspectives. There are lots of definitions of happiness but simply, we can say, happiness is a positive emotion that makes you feel good and satisfied. I want to share some points regarding happiness.
There is a mathematical equation from which you can find out your happiness. This equation is: Achievement - Expectation = result; when result is positive value then it is happiness; otherwise it is unhappiness or sadness. And you can control this equation by yourself. The lower the expectation, the higher the happiness. When your expectation is low, your happiness is high.
Happiness is a perspective matter. One event will make you happy or unhappy according to your position. Suppose today's India vs Pakistan cricket match finished a few moments ago and India won. If I support India, then I will be happy but if I support Pakistan, I will be unhappy.
Happiness is which comes from the inside. You will get many tips on how you can get happiness. But I want to mention two things 1. Love your work or what you do 2. Don't complain. Then you will be a happy person and feel happiness.
When your achievement is more than expectation, we call it happiness. But we can get happiness in other ways without any expectation such as we can help other people. It will be real happiness or super happiness. Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus made the simple statement - "Making money is happiness; making other people happy is super-happiness."
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus made the simple statement when explaining the concept of social business, his brainchild, to a dominantly young audience in the capital yesterday.
Money and profit for one's own development cannot be the sole incentive for doing business but rather there can be joy in solving people's problems, the economist Prof Muhammad Yunus told the Social Business Academic Conclave 2015 at Eastern University.