The science of Subjective Well Being, a.k.a Happiness.

[@charansinghkhind6732]

I am 76 and try to live my life fully lived, even not having a piece of land or any long term financial assets with me. I think it is my lifestyle choices which are governing my destiny. I define LIFE: Living In Full Enjoyment , and the key is to ‘ Live in present moments , Inducting simplicity, Fulfilling duty/responsibility, and Embracing laughter, meditation, music, social interaction and a balanced diet along with an active lifestyle. My ritual of following self-reflection n mindfulness meditation keeps my wheel of life running buoyantly .

[@edwardwong654]

Why do you not have more THUMBS UP? This is well said, and I find some comfort in your words. Thank you.

[@haleyelizabeth3926]

This video really puts into perspective the importance of your own mindset in everyday life. Although, like Doctor Mike said, materialistic things do not necessarily hurt your short term happiness levels, you are more likely to gain happiness in things that are going to benefit you for a while. I believe that that is why there are so many people that struggle with happiness. The society we live in today has very high and almost unrealistic goals on how to achieve happiness. If we focused more on our inner happiness rather than on our outer happiness the overall happiness of our society would increase dramatically. Also by helping one another gain happiness we will not only be helping them but ourselves as well.

[@healthyhappyliving-anh]

Thank you for creating this space to learn and grow. I feel more empowered to take care of myself! 💫

[@iamdmc]

Dr Mike, this may be your best video yet. Thank you for the thoughtful and entertaining whistle stop tour through happiness and life :)

[@ramonawhite6409]

Damn! I had a feeling it was genetic. I wasn't too unhappy about being short but I was unhappy about being unhappy and now I know that to a great extent my parents are responsible for both. Thanks one hell of a lot, Mom and Dad!

[@kerimolloy9574]

According to John Stuart Mill, happiness is in a sense unattainable, happiness is just lowering the frequency of pain. In which ourselves cause the most pain for ourselves, and are the ones who can stop the pain. To relate what Mill has to say to this video is with the point of hedonic adaptation. In which we become accustomed to what made us once so happy and in time no longer feel that happiness anymore. With what this video has to say in a way does contradict the ethics of happiness according to Mill. To also say that your happiness is determined mostly on your genes and life choices/behaviours seems more accurate. Sometimes we may buy or do things that will allow us to feel happiness for only a short amount of time, but those things can also but the things that are just the stepping stones to a greater amount of happiness. In a way Mill is right by saying that happiness is just reducing the pain that we feel, and this video proves that to be true in a roundabout way. Like stated before, we wish for some things that we intend that will bring us more happiness but as time goes on those things are not what bring us ultimate joy. As a human we continually want to better ourselves to feel happiness, and that we have to be the very best and have the very best to feel happy. But I disagree with that, we have to in a way create happiness to get happiness in return.

[@1978madh]

You are the milkman of human kindness Mike

[@jeroenmoser3544]

I'm grateful that you've shared this! :-)

[@oafkad]

The Hedonic Treadmill is something I'm always mindful of. In my opinion it's a fairly good thing in many cases. It inspires us to never be complacent and to always try improving our situation. Admittedly it becomes destructive if your situation is already basically capped out. Being a billionaire and looking to become a trillionaire. But for the vast majority of people I imagine the changes are positive for them and those around them.

[@WBlake01]

Hard to say when something is capped out. The economic games of billionaires keep society at high velocity.

[@alexgaulton7264]

Valuable information, condensed perfectly. Good work

[@lumiere3711]

Thanks for explaining hedonic adaptation to me simple yet it emphasize how it works I was confused at reading the book yet you made it clear to me thank you

[@annkys9441]

Who knew I needed this video to feel happy.. 😃

[@asaweinstein9543]

Good stuff, as usual Mike! Don't underestimate how effective some of the small stuff is...good advice!

[@adebaba6079]

Dr mike you are the best... thanks for these great vids

[@frontstreeteats1043]

Thank you for your videos

[@texazwhyte1328]

Excellent....

[@FlowWithJeaux]

These drawings..... SO GOOD!

[@muskduh]

Thanks for the video

[@TimTamashiroIkigai]

Superb video. Thanks for your wisdom and expertise!

[@drrupalmohan231]

Wonderful, you are a happy soul😄

[@juaneduardocriollo]

Thanks Dr. Mike I feel better too! : )

[@Urspo]

I love your videos. One part made me chuckle: 'a new hockey stick". How Canadian of you ! LOL

[@janemichelle4017]

Hello

[@user-ng8eq8ew8n]

“Poverty” is subjective. Nothing in this world can provide humans with the happiness, joy, well-being, and peace our soul craves. I have been in situations where I had plenty of resources-and it did nothing for my overall well-being other than provide a “sense” of false security. Since COVID we have all seen how anything can change at any moment-and all the money can’t save a person from human tragedy. Therefore, I suggest anyone who is looking for the things that MONEY can’t buy to search for these things through spirituality, because only then will you be rich with those aforementioned jewels (happiness, joy, peace, and well-being) that will bring quality to your life♥️❤️♥️

[@Killadog1980]

Great upload doc, thanks for the helpful words!

[@Sam-zf2wg]

Thank you,

[@sandyb9967]

So helpful thx u

[@dalibor93ku]

well said, well done ill put this video on loop

[@ShoorfLonelyLokly]

One simply can not keep himself on float and is sinking every time to the bottom of depression.

[@Sarin-xl2ok]

This doctor reminds me of Horace Slughorn!

[@fraserjs]

Dr. Mike, you confirmed at 46 seconds that money can buy happiness!!!

[@longdrums]

I think the overall point, and it's something I've thought for years, is that money can only buy short term happiness, but it can definitely lessen misery. You might say that lessening misery = happiness, but I think it's deeper and more nuanced than that.

[@mioangel1227]

Greati info! Love it! TFS!

[@amiramduby]

You've mentioned that doing Altruistic activities makes us happier, I fully agree with this statement but for years I haven't managed to explain myself why... and the more I do good things for other people, the more I'm enjoying it. I've heard that from evolutionary standpoint, we created ourself to be kind and altruistic by nature so that we'll be happy to help one another, it's a good reason but it's not enough for me to settle the matter in my mind... why do we like other species then? and why the majority of people like to help themselves more?

[@WBlake01]

Well, maybe you can find some sense in the fact that liking animals has benefitted us well. E.g see dogs for hunting, oxen for agriculture andsoforth. If you're on a poor mans farm the cats you love don't get fed, instead their usefulness becomes apparent when they hunt mice. But treating them as a member of the family makes them stick around. Being antagonistic of animals wouldn't have led us to a good place. And to your last question, the answer *definitely* lies in evolution. Being social helps up to a certain point, being selfish is essential in passing along your genes if for example your are contending for a female/male and many other things.

[@meganmcmichael7527]

I think you pose some good questions that most people probably cannot answer. The concept behind these questions is interesting; I feel as though because as a whole my general population (college students) generally is not considered very happy and maybe this is because we like to help ourselves more. It is true, at least from my experience, that the more altruistic you are the happier you be, but as college students sometimes it's hard to get past the "right now" and what's going wrong to see the bigger picture and just work through it. It also does not help that, in my opinion, the millennial generation is one of the more selfish generations and we think of our own happiness, typically, before we do others. But, these are simply just opinions and not true answers.

[@amiramduby]

First of all, there is some merit by that our generation is more focused on ourselves and our own desires but that's also my point! you can see that most of the people now are less happy with their lifes, and I'm strictly talking statistics now- the rate of which people are killing themselves and people who suffer depression is increasing worldwide and I personally think it's because we're loosing our altruistic identities as a human species. With the right education, I believe we can convince people of all ages that the challenges we face now are far more complicated than at the time that people were sitting around bonfires and trying to form a language and people who would realize that and would bang their heads on the wall trying to solve those problems would be happier people. But with all this said and done, yeah... that doesn't answer my question

[@jamesroh18]

love your videos thank you !

[@mel-tp5hi]

2:34 "with our factory settings" ? what is he saying he? I don't understand the words. Factory?!? why "factory"? Thank you in advance for replying. xx

[@sararjnejad]

I feel better already too 🤓👌

[@mahmoudaglan3198]

Middle East..u almost got me with mid-age crises 😂

[@coreywoodward1537]

So what you're saying is I should get married every two years and get a new car every few months, and I will be happy. Thanks Mike!

[@ابومحمدالعراقي-س2ط]

Allah Allah Allah Say Allah is One (1) Allah of Resurrection (2) Not born nor born (3) And he did not have a palm for anyone (4)

[@adeimantusglaucon9732]

"The philosopher in me" - then seems to combine the is with the ought - oh, the irony.....

[@anitacarrier9386]

May i ask are you a doctor as in you have a PHD? I only ask as I'm in my final year of Psychology conducting my Independent study on happiness and would like to Cite and ref your findings in this video. If you have work out there based on this could you please share with me the name of the paper please? Thank you

[@msroyalty1525]

Can I use this for irp in science I dont know what to do it about unless this is useful?

[@OrlyYahalom]

You refer to "external circumstances" only with respect to wealth. How about the way your parent(s) treated you, or weather you were abused somehow. With 1 in 6 children being sexually abused, I don't think this can be disregarded.

[@maishk7211]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@citizenjournalist2401]

Don't your choices create your circumstances? 🤔

[@deeptijain8533]

What is the role of physical well-being in happiness? Give me some 5 points about it.

[@BlurSpin]

I have the answers to this

[@ابومحمدالعراقي-س2ط]

Allah Allah Allah Say Allah is One (1) Allah of Resurrection (2) Not born nor born (3) And he did not have a palm for anyone (4)

[@leander9411]

The best thing you can do in my opinion, is to never expect anything from no-one.

[@janemichelle4017]

Yeah leandar