Wealthy but Unhappy
Friday, June 26th, 2009
It’s not that fame and fortune don’t make you happy; the news is actually worse than that. (Or, in this recession, is it better?) They make you unhappy.
Psychologists at the University of Rochester studied recent college grads over two years, trying to figure what made them happy. What worked wasn’t extrinsic things, a car, a big house, fancy clothes…but then most of us knew that. The joy just doesn’t last long enough, you always need newer and more. (Once you drive off the lot, it’s a used car.) Instead, the researchers find that contentment comes from that list we got from (more…)
