Practical Guide: Happiness Design

By Phowpinyo Shimbhanao

So purpose behind earning money is happiness finally.

So the purpose behind our love craving is also happiness.

Now it is clear what we do is for happiness but still, we are not happy.

Sometimes times are really hard and it is not easy to be happy, but mostly we are unhappy because our attitude is wrong.

Most of the time in our life we could be happy if we learn how to be happy in present.

For happiness, we also need to work but much less if compared to other good things in life.

For that, you need to read some books and some good blogs about happiness.

This books will help you analyze your views and form a better perspective towards being happy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phowpinyo Shimbhanao
• Release date: Oct 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463184530

Phowpinyo Shimbhanao

I collaborate with people, teams, and businesses to develop design systems, strategies, and processes to do better and more interesting creative work.

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What is Happiness?

For the point of this book (and each conversation on pleasure for that matter), I think it's important to make sure that we have a solid definition and many & clear understanding of what we mean by happiness.

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Existing definitions

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I've done research on definitions of happiness that are used today and discovered that nearly all of them are not suitable as a basis to analyse happiness for a reason or another. For instance, a common type of pleasure definition would be the following, located on wikipedia.org:

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The problem with descriptions such as this is that they use expressions which need definitions themselves. By way of example, from the story above, what doespleasure exactly mean? Definingpleasure is no easy task either, and we all run the chance of using the termhappiness again after definingjoy (Wikipedia actually redirects to theHappiness-article when you enterJoy), i.e. going in circles.

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Another common form to define happiness is saying examples. For example, when individuals were asked about what's the pleasure for them, they responded along the lines of...

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you can do are in harmony

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Happiness is living in a state of freely deciding to make an exchange one's rational values with others.

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"Happiness is that if you balance your