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Let me clarify the main idea behind what scientists call hedonic treadmill. Making $1 million in one year, but nothing in the preceding nine, does not bring the same pleasure as having the total evenly distributed over the same period, that is, $100,000 every year for ten years in a row. The same applies to the inverse order—making a bundle the first year, then nothing for the remaining period. Your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive affect," than on their intensity when they hit. Mother Nature destined us to derive enjoyment from a steady flow of Pleasant small, but frequent, rewards. As I said, the rewards do not have to be large, just frequent—a little bit here, a little bit there. Sadly, it may be even worse for you to make $10 million, then lose back nine, than to making nothing at all! True, you may end up with a million (as compared to nothing), but it may be better had you got zero.(This assumes, of course, that you care about financial rewards.) In the meantime, Consider that our major satisfaction for thousands of years came in the form of food and water (and something else more private), and that while we need these steadily, we quickly reach saturation. Let me give you another insightful example. How well can we predict our emotions? Would winning the lotto make us the happiest people alive for many years to come? Dan Gilbert world renown Psychologist from Harvard university who studied lottery winners, surprisingly discovered that the happiness effect melt down over time few months.so as direct conclusion after having win the jackpot of the lotto, we fall back to our previous contentment or discontentment. So many are far no better: Well people who progress in their careers are in term of happiness, are right back where they started three months ago. From the same line people who buy the latest Bugatti Veyron or the most luxurious mansion around the block. Science call this the Hedonic treadmill- indeed we work hard, advance and are able to afford more, better and nicer things and this doesn’t make us any happier. Where really lies the problem about a long lasting happiness is that we do not live in an environment where Results are delivered in a steady manner—rare events, outliers, the unexpected dominate much of human history. It is unfortunate that the right strategy for our current environment may not offer internal rewards and positive feedback. The same property in reverse applies to our unhappiness. It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread out over a longer one. Unless it will look like Chinese torture Well wouldn’t it be nice if we knew how happy a new career or relationship or would make us? Well use these scientific heuristic to make better and brighter decisions; Avoid at all costs anything that generate chronic stress such as being around dull and stressful people,commuting,noise I declare, is happy whom nothing makes less strong than he is; he keeps to the heights, leaning upon none but himself; for one who sustains himself by any prop may fall.(in the meantime I am not saying you should not trust people trust people – namely trust them – but check ,yes you have the last decision- since it is the unexpected that puts the heaviest load upon us. Hence randomness doesn’t look random but how its affect some people is not. Develop a mind that is steadfast and resolutely clings to a good judgment, how? I am glad you ask by gaining a complete view of truth, by maintaining, in all that you do, order, measure, fitness, and a will that is inoffensive and kindly. Follow your passions even if you have to invest a portion of your income Invest in friendship and or most people most professional status achieve long lasting happiness and in the meantime mingle by reserving three to days in a row in a month during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" just as In days of peace the soldier performs manoeuvres, throws up earthworks with no enemy in sight, and wearies himself by gratuitous toil, in order that he may be equal to unavoidable toil.