| Smart Alek: I have been working very hard lately. | | | | learning how to become a happy person requires you |
| Soon I will have my great reward. | | | | to understand and develop the activities that you find |
| Aleks Psych: What will that be? | | | | the most pleasurable and know how to use them in |
| Smart Alek: I will never work again. | | | | order to increase the quality of your life. I have broken |
| Aleks Psych: What will you do if you do not work? | | | | up the pleasurable things that make people happy into |
| Smart Alek: What else, expect everyone else to look | | | | 2 categories, they are Regular Pleasures and Reward |
| after me and vehemently complain if they try to stop! | | | | Pleasures. In daily life, it is important to have a few |
| Their frustration and pain will be my ultimate pleasure. | | | | standard pleasures that are practiced regularly to |
| All positive psychology practitioners agree that one | | | | make life enjoyable but in order to pull yourself |
| crucial aspect in the psychology of what makes | | | | towards growing as a person and achieving your |
| people happy is the development of pleasure. The | | | | greater goals, you need to create reward pleasures |
| seeking of pleasure underlines everything that we do. | | | | that you can only receive once you have earned |
| Even when we decide to do an activity that we know | | | | them. |
| will not be pleasurable in the short term, we do it in the | | | | One of the flaws in the common psychology of what |
| hope of it leading to an eventual outcome that will be | | | | makes people happy in modern life, is many people |
| pleasurable. | | | | are so used to immediate gratification that they will |
| The research into how to become a happy person | | | | never obtain the full pleasurable feeling that comes |
| has shown that the pleasurable feelings and things that | | | | from a reward that they have worked to earn. |
| make people happy in the short term are not the most | | | | Compared to previous generations, luxury item debts |
| important factors in living a fulfilling life. Having a life filled | | | | are ludicrously high, and yet current generations are not |
| only with pleasurable activities will not sustain most | | | | happier. That is because the novelty of a fancy toy or |
| people as we need to have a greater sense of | | | | experience that you did not work hard to obtain wears |
| purpose that is effortful and aimed at benefiting others. | | | | off quite quickly. You can not live a non challenging |
| I will address these issues in other articles. However, | | | | lifestyle and expect to feel intense pleasure. However, |
| becoming a martyr is not how to become a happy | | | | if your toy or experience is an honest and fair reward |
| person either. A life with little to no pleasure will lead to | | | | based on what you have accomplished, the potential |
| burn out. | | | | pleasure of that reward once obtained is considerably |
| When it comes to the psychology of happiness, | | | | greater. |