Summary Of Happiness Enough Already

In an age where constant new discoveries in the field of medicine are inevitable, society looks to medical advances for an opportunity to cure every ailment life produces. This essay will analyze the rhetoric argument entitled “Taking Pills for Happiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad is Not Human” composed for the Guardian Newspaper by Giles Fraser. Written in August of the year 2013 Fraser hopes to persuade the readers of the Guardian to agree with his analysis on sadness. The purpose of Frasers oratory is to persuade his audience that unhappiness is the body’s way of reacting to discomforts in life and rather than fight unhappiness, one should learn to accept that it is apart of life. Overall, Giles Fraser is effective when using pathos and logos to bolster the strength this piece and this adds to the

Lyubomirsky defines happiness as the “experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile” (184). She challenges the myths that people can find happiness by changing their circumstances and that people either are “born happy or unhappy” (186). Happiness is not something that can be found or something that not everyone can have. People make their own happiness, despite the difficulties they may face. Happiness comes by “choosing to change and manage your state of mind” (185). Lyubomirsky gives cases of people who are happy even though they suffer from losses and setbacks. These are the people whose circumstances should make them unhappy, but their intentional actions bring them joy. She also gives cases of people who have not suffered any major losses but are still unhappy because they may see events negatively and feel helpless before them. Lyubomirsky asserts that “changes in our circumstances, no matter how positive and stunning, actually have little bearing on our well-being” (186). Even though a person’s circumstances may be positive, those circumstances do not make them happy. Lyubomirsky uses a Subjective Happiness Scale to measure happiness, which takes the average of numerical answers to four questions. She argues that in order to become happier, “you need to determine your present personal happiness level, which will provide your first estimate of your happiness

As human beings we are naturally wired to seek happiness wherever we can find it. When we don’t, we may enter a stage of anger, anxiety, or distress. That’s why it is our personal goal to look for happiness and preserve it once we acquire it. Many have explored ways to find what triggers this feeling of “happiness” and what we can do to keep it; nonetheless, the evidence found is hardly sufficient to make a public statement on how to find happiness. For this reason, most of the time we speculate what might provoke this feeling of contentment. “Happiness is a glass half empty,” an essay written by Oliver Burkeman, highlights the importance of happiness and discloses how we can find delight through unorthodox methods. The prime objective of this piece of writing is to inform the audience about the effect of happiness on their lives and how their usual attempts of becoming happier can sabotage achieving this feeling. Furthermore, he wants to promote the benefits of pessimism and describe how it can help us in the long run. The author utilizes pronouns, logos, and pathos in order to prove his point and draw the audience into his essay, in an attempt of making them reconsider the way they live their lives and adopt this new pessimistic way that would greatly boost their level of happiness.

She is an “award-winning staff writer at Newsweek” and “has written scores of articles that decode the complexities of science for lay readers” (554). In addition, Begley also “wrote for the ‘Science Journal’ column for the Wall Street Journal” which “first appeared on the Newsweek-affiliated Web site the Daily Beast” (554). These credentials are evidence that allow the reader to trust her as a reliable author. Begley’s article is also trustworthy because she introduces sources that have published research on happiness, are psychologists or psychiatrists, and support her argument. For example, Begley mentions Ed Diener, a psychologist “who has studied happiness for a quarter century” (555). She also mentions the global research that has concluded that the people with “the highest levels of happiness” tend to put in less effort into improving and changing their lives (556). Begley also supports her article by mentioning several examples of well-known people who used their “negative emotions, including sadness, to direct [their] thinking” (557). For example, Begley mentions that “Beethoven composed his later works in a melancholic funk” (557). Begley believes that the negative emotions that lead famous people to their critical thinking can also help people such as, college students (557).

to stay on point and manages to sound very scientific. One of the main ways he does this is by

Mahatma Gandhi one defined happiness as “when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Barring any better definition of happiness from either positive psychologists, self-help gurus, or any other academic source, I tend to think this is a great summation of the definition of happiness. Gandhi doesn’t say anything about how these things make you feel, rather looks at it from a point of view of harmony between thoughts, expressions, and actions. Since one single accepted definition of happiness doesn’t seem to exist, and happiness is different for everyone, this begs the question; how can you increase your own personal level of happiness?

A person’s happiness can have an impact on others. People can get agitated because a group or individual is at peace or sons and daughter can be happy as a result of witnessing their parents being content. Delightment is capable of encouraging expansion of one’s knowledge. For instance, if one realizes their potential in achieving greatness in a certain subject, the satisfaction could lead to desiring to draw in more knowledge, knowing the greatness that individual can achieve. Someone who is depressed doesn’t have the motivation to achieve something positive. There are people that misinterpret or have a negative pleasure and peace of mind. That’s the incredible potential happiness

Sadness is too much associated with a negative connotation and one of the most damaging accusations is that all sadness is a disease (Begley 557). Begley goes on to clarify that each individual will achieve different levels of happiness at different moments, and she claims

Everyone has felt sadness as some point in their lives, but that does not necessarily mean that they are depressed. When someone reaches a point of depression, it could be defined as having been sad for a long period of time, having no motivation to do what once made them happy, and feeling as though there is no more hope. Along with losing all faith, there is the long lasting feelings of guilt, and many depressed people feel this way because they blame themselves for not being able to feel happy. This way of thinking stems from today’s conventional society. People are always told that they can choose optimism, choose to be happy, and it is all their fault if they are anything but. However, this way of thinking is very toxic for those who are

As people say,” feeling of being "depressed is a normal occurrence due to loss, daily life struggles, or low self-confidence. But when feelings become stronger and sadness over

Although the scene above taken from the show, The Office, is a comical one, there is still truth and value to the message behind it that depression is of a serious matter. Many people often mistaken being depressed as just being sad or “down in the dumps” for a couple days when in reality it’s a true disease that overtakes thousands of people everyday. Unfortunately for some people that’s just the way their brain is wired and there is nothing they can do about it but take medication. Now with this medication comes the controversial topic on if the happiness is actually created by the human or is artificial. Many people have this misconstrued idea which isn’t fair considering they can’t control how their brain is wired and they need this

John Stuart Mill, the author of A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward claims that people who cease to be happy are most definitely not happy since they’re trying too hard to find happiness. Searching for happiness isn’t the end of the world. Those who have found happiness are lucky and have their minds straight. According to John, the only way to find happiness is to not only think about yourselves but to also think about others and their happiness. Caring for other people's happiness brings joy to your own happiness since it causes a pleasure feeling of

The world seems to be a dark and unforgiving place, but happiness is hidden within. It is found in a beautiful view, an uplifting song, or a compliment from a friend. According to the Ted Talk video, The Habits of Happiness, Matthieu Ricard claims that everyone “has a deep, profound desire for well-being or happiness”(Ricard 2:39). Ricard uses the three techniques of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to captivate and move his audience. With the use of metaphors, personal experiences, and even graphs Matthieu explained to his audience the full force and perception of the bendable word that is happiness. This Ted Talk dove into philosophical meaning on just how to achieve well-being, without having everything in the world.

In the article “What Happy People Do Differently” (2013), Kashdan and Biswas-Diener, claims that true happiness is more than a mix of positive feelings but rather a sense of peace or contentedness. They establish this by saying that happiness is partly emotional and based on the idea that every individual’s feelings have a natural set point (similar to that of a thermostat) that will be returned to. This article was written in order to better educate others on the science of happiness. The authors were writing to anyone of any age as the language was very plain and simple and because the article was a very easy

If you are not happy, your thoughts and your emotions are not happy. Complaining, sadness, hopelessness, worry, jealousy, hatred, blame, doubt, disappointment, overwhelming, annoyance, and on and on it goes. All of these things contribute to the decline of your happiness and health in a big way.