How much money do you need to be truly happy? #Habits

17 Oct 2020 · 1 min

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TJ Walker asks how much money a person needs to be "truly" or "incredibly" happy. He references conflicting psychological research—some studies suggest happiness plateaus after a certain income, others that happiness continues to increase with wealth. He states his interest is not absolute maximum happiness but the threshold people imagine; argues that many overestimate the amount (e.g., millions or billions) required, and that once basic desires (food, desirable home) are met, social experiences with family and friends matter most for happiness.

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How much money do you really need to make and have in order to consider yourself truly happy? There's one set of psychological surveys shows that income at a certain level it peaks but your happiness doesn't go up after that. Other research has said no that's not true. The more money you have, the happier you do get. I'm not interested in what will make you the absolute happiest. What I am interested in is how much money do you think you need in order to be really happy? Incredibly happy in my estimation. Most people, because we live in a materialistic culture estimate way too high. They think they can't possibly be truly happy unless they have 10 million, 25, 100 million, a billion dollars. The reality is you're making yourself miserable if you tell yourself you can't truly be happy until that amount. Once you have the food you want, a nice home you want, what makes people happiest is having fun times with family and friends.