Seriously, it was all so much easier when they all happened as a natural course of the day back in the day not even a few decades ago. Now you have to specifically schedule all these things because we have gotten rid of a lot of the fixtures that made this happen automatically in the course of a day.
The book in question:
* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61273746-the-good-life
Excerpt:
* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive...
See also discussions on happiness from earlier:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996364
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000600
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441784
Wow, I could keel over any minute...
i feel more stressed out by all these things you are supposed to do to not die in misery. Nothing is enough. There is always some other thing to do.
Like most things, 80-20 rule probably applies.
> It was satisfaction in their relationships, particularly in their marriages, that was the best predictor of a happy and healthy life.
Good marriages is probably the 80. If you nailed that you've won.
Seriously, it was all so much easier when they all happened as a natural course of the day back in the day not even a few decades ago. Now you have to specifically schedule all these things because we have gotten rid of a lot of the fixtures that made this happen automatically in the course of a day.