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Unpacking the Happiness Formula with Ashish Kothari and Alphonsus Obayuwana #shorts

16 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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A speaker (from a YouTube short titled "Unpacking the Happiness Formula...") describes research exploring five sources of human hope, five inborn human hungers, and five triggers of happiness. They report that these three 'fives' align, and propose a simple explanatory equation: hope over hunger equals happiness; the speaker notes lack of hope can lead to suicide and that findings came from an international survey asking people to name events that made them truly happy.

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When I was doing this, I wasn't trying to find a way to measure happiness at all. I was just fascinated by my five sources of human hope and the five inborn human hungers. As I saw that, happiness became the big deal. And I'm saying, wait a minute, lack of hope is what made people commit suicide. So how is hope related to happiness? So I decided now to find out whether hope is the same thing as happiness or are they different? So I went back and did international survey asking people, what is it that makes you happy? Give me event, situation, or an occurrence in your life that made you real happy. When I put all of this together, there came to be five triggers of happiness. This was just all coincidental. When I put these three together, the five sources of human hope, the five inborn human hungers, and the five triggers of happiness. The relationship was so striking, how the five sources of human hope were directly related to the five triggers of happiness. So in trying to explain all of this, I could only find a good explanation for it in a simple mathematical equation of hope over hunger equals happiness.