forbes article talking about happiness concludes that too many options make you less happy. i do agree that more options tend to make you less happy, but i think that's because you're taking an expected value on the happiness you feel. more options will result in more intense happiness when you get what you want, but also more intense sadness when things don't go right. all in all, the average of the extremes may result in something less than no options. but it depends on what you're out to get. the stable type of happiness or to feel all the extremes of life's ups and downs
on another note, the article also said that children were like heroin:
"Children share a property with heroin. Heroin makes you feel so good it crowds out every other form of good feeling in your life. You stop going to work, stop having sex. You stop doing everything but taking heroin and that destroys your life. Similarly, children stop you from doing every other thing that use to make you happy because they demand so much attention. When you have one source of joy it is your greatest by definition"
posted @ Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:16 AM