Comments on: Get Happy: Making Decisions for Emotional Quality http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:53:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nigel woo http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-672812 Nigel woo Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:19:29 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/#comment-672812 The assumption for the graph? Hmmm... The assumption for the graph?
Hmmm…

]]> By: Scott Young http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-20859 Scott Young Tue, 29 May 2007 13:07:20 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/#comment-20859 Richard, Perhaps. I'll look at another way to tackle this subject in the future, it is a relatively new and fairly complex topic, so I'll try different ways to relate it in a future post. Richard,

Perhaps. I’ll look at another way to tackle this subject in the future, it is a relatively new and fairly complex topic, so I’ll try different ways to relate it in a future post.

]]> By: Awareness http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-20765 Awareness Tue, 29 May 2007 04:18:30 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/#comment-20765 I don't think your graphs muddy the picture. It's certainly a way that might help someone shift the way they look at something they are attempting to make a decision about. It's just that it's a slice of the picture, and leaves out some important territory. But that's to be expected in anything under about 100,00 words. I don’t think your graphs muddy the picture. It’s certainly a way that might help someone shift the way they look at something they are attempting to make a decision about. It’s just that it’s a slice of the picture, and leaves out some important territory. But that’s to be expected in anything under about 100,00 words.

]]> By: Richard http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-20760 Richard Tue, 29 May 2007 03:08:30 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/#comment-20760 For some reason your first piece on this topic made a much greater impact on me. I feel like the wonder and power of this new way (paradigm) of looking at happiness was stunted by going too far into analyzing the details and logistics of implementing it. I feel like the emotional quality model is a fresh way of looking at life because it awakens people to the realization that happiness isn't something that is way at the end of the rainbow, rather it is something that is all around us. Happiness is no longer a distant fantasy that is never fulfilled, and we more likely to realize when we have it. The emotional quality model shouldn't be manhandled with graphs and flowcharts about making decisions and becoming more productive, rather it should be an overarching attitude about life and happiness. Scott, I am also 18 yrs old and I am about to go off to college. Seeing what you've done with your life already has really inspired me and driven me towards making the most of my life. I appreciate and commend you. For some reason your first piece on this topic made a much greater impact on me. I feel like the wonder and power of this new way (paradigm) of looking at happiness was stunted by going too far into analyzing the details and logistics of implementing it.

I feel like the emotional quality model is a fresh way of looking at life because it awakens people to the realization that happiness isn’t something that is way at the end of the rainbow, rather it is something that is all around us. Happiness is no longer a distant fantasy that is never fulfilled, and we more likely to realize when we have it.

The emotional quality model shouldn’t be manhandled with graphs and flowcharts about making decisions and becoming more productive, rather it should be an overarching attitude about life and happiness.

Scott, I am also 18 yrs old and I am about to go off to college. Seeing what you’ve done with your life already has really inspired me and driven me towards making the most of my life. I appreciate and commend you.

]]> By: Scott Young http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-20668 Scott Young Mon, 28 May 2007 21:29:17 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/#comment-20668 Awareness, Internal interpretation is definitely important. My point was that the decisions you make create ripples of effect, putting you in different situations and giving you different experiences and emotional states. Working hard towards a goal might create challenge and then later lead to satisfaction and pride when it is completed for a short time. I'm afraid my graphs kind of muddy the picture somewhat. -Scott Awareness,

Internal interpretation is definitely important. My point was that the decisions you make create ripples of effect, putting you in different situations and giving you different experiences and emotional states. Working hard towards a goal might create challenge and then later lead to satisfaction and pride when it is completed for a short time.

I’m afraid my graphs kind of muddy the picture somewhat.

-Scott

]]> By: Awareness http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-20648 Awareness Mon, 28 May 2007 18:41:33 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/27/get-happy-making-decisions-for-emotional-quality/#comment-20648 It’s an interesting approach to solving the happiness question. However you don’t seem to address the interpretation mechanism in the mind that is the biggest factor in affecting happiness. Studies show that most people do a very poor job of predicting what will make them happy. It has also been revealed that over time a person returns back to their average level of happiness after a major life changing event. This includes winning the lottery or losing a limb. Your graph assumes that external changes will have a big difference in a person’s happiness, but this has been proven not to be so. Real changes in the emotional quality of a person’s life actually happen when they make changes in the internal interpretation mechanism of the mind. It’s an interesting approach to solving the happiness question. However you don’t seem to address the interpretation mechanism in the mind that is the biggest factor in affecting happiness.

Studies show that most people do a very poor job of predicting what will make them happy. It has also been revealed that over time a person returns back to their average level of happiness after a major life changing event. This includes winning the lottery or losing a limb.

Your graph assumes that external changes will have a big difference in a person’s happiness, but this has been proven not to be so. Real changes in the emotional quality of a person’s life actually happen when they make changes in the internal interpretation mechanism of the mind.

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