The Secret to Happiness: Where Buddhism and Behavioral Economics Meet
<p>Humans often disagree on most things: from arguing over the best restaurant in town to the greatest footballer ever. However, most humans — ancient or modern, from the East or the West, living in the mountains or deserts — would agree that the ultimate purpose of any human endeavor is to find “happiness.”</p>
<p>And sometimes, we do find happiness from both individual and collective successes. But, as Buddha suggests, the fundamental predicament of life is that happiness derived from worldly successes does not last forever.</p>
<p>In fact, contrary to our expectations, suffering — the exact opposite of happiness — often pervades our lives. Once back in college, one of my friends, while referring to the sine wave on an oscilloscope, said, “If we could plot happiness over time like the voltage, it would follow a similar pattern!”</p>
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