The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/why-we-are-never-satisfied-happiness/621304/
* 500 Greatest Songs of All Time * here * column about human happiness * Listen: Arthur C. Brooks’s podcast, How to Build a Happy Life * Watch: Jeff Goldberg and Arthur C. Brooks on the science of happiness * Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction * a by-product of homeostasis * Self-Reliance * Read: Arthur C. Brooks’s articles on how to build a life * more of it helps up to a point * but stronger still is our resistance to less * more than they want to bequeath to their children * This owes to our vestigial urges * From the June 2009 issue: What makes us happy? * but that you run slightly faster than other people are running on theirs * associated with * series of experiments * our natural state is dissatisfaction * Studies * find * associated with * direct relationship with * Professional self-objectification * From the January/February 2003 issue: Does money buy happiness? * buying new things * winning money * acquiring more power or fame * having new sexual partners * helpfully specific * in the case of money * crucial for a functioning society and supporting your family; * Tao Te Ching * arguably the world’s most enlightened man * The Art of Happiness * my own advice * more * enduring * The Miracle of Mindfulness * my religious practice as a Catholic * From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life * March 2022