Hedonic Treadmill Refs ?
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Do an "operator()" on "Jack Whitaker" and the Shipbreakers of Bangladesh. You can always Google (( shipbreakers CBS )) to find the CBS video - I think there should be a feature-length film made about one of these guys along the lines of Eddie Murphy's "Trading Places". CBS features this video every Labor Day, so it was on my mind. Then today I chanced across the CNN write-up on how Jack Whitaker's life turned to s*** after taking a lump-sum-after-tax-payment from the Powerball of $93 million - http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/09/13/lottery.nightmare.ap/index.html [^] The POINT being that I think it can be truly said that many of those Shipbreakers are often in a higher state of happiness than Jack Whitaker - the CBS video shows them CHEERING when another ship comes in to be cut up. It's clearly "manly work", like the economist says their tough labor leaves everyone better off and your normal White Person might likely die after a week in such conditions - there's a basis for self-esteem ! Synchronistically the CBS narrator actually uses the word "nightmare" while introducing the video, the same word used in the title of the CNN article. While I have a small collection of Emotional-IQ books, one of the lesser-known ones can today be had used for $1.47 from Amazon - "The Emotional Revolution" by Normal Rosenthal, who was a pioneer in the field of Seasonal Affective Disorder. What's your favorite Hedonic Treadmill book ?
pg--az
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Do an "operator()" on "Jack Whitaker" and the Shipbreakers of Bangladesh. You can always Google (( shipbreakers CBS )) to find the CBS video - I think there should be a feature-length film made about one of these guys along the lines of Eddie Murphy's "Trading Places". CBS features this video every Labor Day, so it was on my mind. Then today I chanced across the CNN write-up on how Jack Whitaker's life turned to s*** after taking a lump-sum-after-tax-payment from the Powerball of $93 million - http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/09/13/lottery.nightmare.ap/index.html [^] The POINT being that I think it can be truly said that many of those Shipbreakers are often in a higher state of happiness than Jack Whitaker - the CBS video shows them CHEERING when another ship comes in to be cut up. It's clearly "manly work", like the economist says their tough labor leaves everyone better off and your normal White Person might likely die after a week in such conditions - there's a basis for self-esteem ! Synchronistically the CBS narrator actually uses the word "nightmare" while introducing the video, the same word used in the title of the CNN article. While I have a small collection of Emotional-IQ books, one of the lesser-known ones can today be had used for $1.47 from Amazon - "The Emotional Revolution" by Normal Rosenthal, who was a pioneer in the field of Seasonal Affective Disorder. What's your favorite Hedonic Treadmill book ?
pg--az
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Do an "operator()" on "Jack Whitaker" and the Shipbreakers of Bangladesh. You can always Google (( shipbreakers CBS )) to find the CBS video - I think there should be a feature-length film made about one of these guys along the lines of Eddie Murphy's "Trading Places". CBS features this video every Labor Day, so it was on my mind. Then today I chanced across the CNN write-up on how Jack Whitaker's life turned to s*** after taking a lump-sum-after-tax-payment from the Powerball of $93 million - http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/09/13/lottery.nightmare.ap/index.html [^] The POINT being that I think it can be truly said that many of those Shipbreakers are often in a higher state of happiness than Jack Whitaker - the CBS video shows them CHEERING when another ship comes in to be cut up. It's clearly "manly work", like the economist says their tough labor leaves everyone better off and your normal White Person might likely die after a week in such conditions - there's a basis for self-esteem ! Synchronistically the CBS narrator actually uses the word "nightmare" while introducing the video, the same word used in the title of the CNN article. While I have a small collection of Emotional-IQ books, one of the lesser-known ones can today be had used for $1.47 from Amazon - "The Emotional Revolution" by Normal Rosenthal, who was a pioneer in the field of Seasonal Affective Disorder. What's your favorite Hedonic Treadmill book ?
pg--az
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->ßRÅhmmÃ<-·´¯`·.
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Do an "operator()" on "Jack Whitaker" and the Shipbreakers of Bangladesh. You can always Google (( shipbreakers CBS )) to find the CBS video - I think there should be a feature-length film made about one of these guys along the lines of Eddie Murphy's "Trading Places". CBS features this video every Labor Day, so it was on my mind. Then today I chanced across the CNN write-up on how Jack Whitaker's life turned to s*** after taking a lump-sum-after-tax-payment from the Powerball of $93 million - http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/09/13/lottery.nightmare.ap/index.html [^] The POINT being that I think it can be truly said that many of those Shipbreakers are often in a higher state of happiness than Jack Whitaker - the CBS video shows them CHEERING when another ship comes in to be cut up. It's clearly "manly work", like the economist says their tough labor leaves everyone better off and your normal White Person might likely die after a week in such conditions - there's a basis for self-esteem ! Synchronistically the CBS narrator actually uses the word "nightmare" while introducing the video, the same word used in the title of the CNN article. While I have a small collection of Emotional-IQ books, one of the lesser-known ones can today be had used for $1.47 from Amazon - "The Emotional Revolution" by Normal Rosenthal, who was a pioneer in the field of Seasonal Affective Disorder. What's your favorite Hedonic Treadmill book ?
pg--az
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>> Alice in Wonderland ? << As in "Through the Looking-Glass", indeed ! To summarize the Wikipedia entry on "Hedonic Treadmill", evidence seems to be that we have this fairly genetic emotional happystat ( hmm only 1.5 pages of Google hits on happystat, seems like a concise variable name ? ), so no matter the external circumstances the happystat will work to configure our "Looking Glass" to return the internal end-result to whatever temperament it is set for. Code-Project-Wise it seems relevant to muse over one's internal programming, at least in the lounge.
pg--az
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Do an "operator()" on "Jack Whitaker" and the Shipbreakers of Bangladesh. You can always Google (( shipbreakers CBS )) to find the CBS video - I think there should be a feature-length film made about one of these guys along the lines of Eddie Murphy's "Trading Places". CBS features this video every Labor Day, so it was on my mind. Then today I chanced across the CNN write-up on how Jack Whitaker's life turned to s*** after taking a lump-sum-after-tax-payment from the Powerball of $93 million - http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/09/13/lottery.nightmare.ap/index.html [^] The POINT being that I think it can be truly said that many of those Shipbreakers are often in a higher state of happiness than Jack Whitaker - the CBS video shows them CHEERING when another ship comes in to be cut up. It's clearly "manly work", like the economist says their tough labor leaves everyone better off and your normal White Person might likely die after a week in such conditions - there's a basis for self-esteem ! Synchronistically the CBS narrator actually uses the word "nightmare" while introducing the video, the same word used in the title of the CNN article. While I have a small collection of Emotional-IQ books, one of the lesser-known ones can today be had used for $1.47 from Amazon - "The Emotional Revolution" by Normal Rosenthal, who was a pioneer in the field of Seasonal Affective Disorder. What's your favorite Hedonic Treadmill book ?
pg--az
A revolution for $1.47? I doubt.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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A revolution for $1.47? I doubt.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighist>> A revolution for $1.47? I doubt. << The precise line of code underlying the conceptual error you just made is detailed on page 5 of Cialdini's "Influence". Actually "Influence" went to a Fourth Edition in 2000, it is page 5 of my 1993 copy. I wonder, on reading this book, how many good-deals-you-passed-up or bad-deals-you-were-suckered-into would float up to your conscious level. It can in some cases be worth $-thousands to have a meta-model of that sometimes-complex-sometimes-not layer of perception between what's actually out there and the interpretation which reaches your action-triggers, sometimes-conscious-sometimes-not.
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>> Alice in Wonderland ? << As in "Through the Looking-Glass", indeed ! To summarize the Wikipedia entry on "Hedonic Treadmill", evidence seems to be that we have this fairly genetic emotional happystat ( hmm only 1.5 pages of Google hits on happystat, seems like a concise variable name ? ), so no matter the external circumstances the happystat will work to configure our "Looking Glass" to return the internal end-result to whatever temperament it is set for. Code-Project-Wise it seems relevant to muse over one's internal programming, at least in the lounge.
pg--az
The Psalm Of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!— For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world’s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! Trust no future, howe’er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,—act in the living present! Heart within, and God o’erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o’er life’s solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.