Comments on: Stumbling on Happiness http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/30/stumbling-on-happiness/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:32:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Scott Young http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/30/stumbling-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Scott Young Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:44:53 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/30/stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-294 Thanks for the comments Roy and Jacin, No, Gilbert doesn't make any distinction between joy, peace, contentment and any other form of happiness. As he says, subjective experiences are like colors. You can't describe one to another person. So my joy may feel like your peace and my contentment may feel like your joy. I'm of the mind that says we tend to differentiate the experiences based on the meaning we attach to them. We feel "peace" because we are doing something peaceful when we experience happiness. As Gilbert mentions with the flaws of memory, that experience subjectively may be no different than feeling contentment or joy even if the causes of those two feelings differ. Thanks for the comments Roy and Jacin,

No, Gilbert doesn’t make any distinction between joy, peace, contentment and any other form of happiness. As he says, subjective experiences are like colors. You can’t describe one to another person. So my joy may feel like your peace and my contentment may feel like your joy. I’m of the mind that says we tend to differentiate the experiences based on the meaning we attach to them. We feel “peace” because we are doing something peaceful when we experience happiness. As Gilbert mentions with the flaws of memory, that experience subjectively may be no different than feeling contentment or joy even if the causes of those two feelings differ.

]]> By: Roy Jacobsen http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/30/stumbling-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Roy Jacobsen Wed, 31 May 2006 22:27:36 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/30/stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-292 Just out of curiosity, does Gilbert make any distinction between Happiness and Joy? Peace? Contentment? The notion is a bit fuzzy in my mind right now, but it seems to me that there may be a difference. (I'll have to explore that notion a bit more.) Just out of curiosity, does Gilbert make any distinction between Happiness and Joy? Peace? Contentment?

The notion is a bit fuzzy in my mind right now, but it seems to me that there may be a difference. (I’ll have to explore that notion a bit more.)

]]> By: Jacin Steele http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/30/stumbling-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Jacin Steele Wed, 31 May 2006 19:41:47 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/30/stumbling-on-happiness/#comment-291 Scott, I've just purchased my copy of this book from Amazon. It's made its way through a number of blogs over the past few weeks. I love reading and learning about happiness and ways to increase it. The best book I've read on the subject is <a title="How we choose to be happy" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/039952990X/jacinsteele-20/" rel="nofollow">How We Choose to be Happy</a> by Rick Foster and Greg Hicks. (My review of the book can be <a href="http://www.jacinsteele.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/13/book-how-we-choose-to-be-happy/" rel="nofollow">found here</a>.) Like <i>Stumbling on Happiness</i>, the Foster and Hicks book is also a scientific study of happiness. I really enjoyed the book because it gives a nine-step outline of creating a life full of happiness. I really love this book and tell everyone I can about it. Scott, I’ve just purchased my copy of this book from Amazon. It’s made its way through a number of blogs over the past few weeks. I love reading and learning about happiness and ways to increase it. The best book I’ve read on the subject is How We Choose to be Happy by Rick Foster and Greg Hicks. (My review of the book can be found here.) Like Stumbling on Happiness, the Foster and Hicks book is also a scientific study of happiness. I really enjoyed the book because it gives a nine-step outline of creating a life full of happiness. I really love this book and tell everyone I can about it.

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