Is it human nature to want more?

Neuroscience confirms that to be truly happy, you will always need something more. There’s never a peak where we’ve achieved and seen everything we could want in life. In fact, neuroscience shows that the act of seeking itself, rather than the goals we realize, is key to satisfaction.

Is everyone miserable now?

Everyone experiences unhappiness once in a while. Statistically, there’s a 50\% increase in the rate of unhappiness worldwide since 2012. The rate at which people live a happy life is dropping drastically by the day. In America, people are becoming miserable.

Are humans designed to be happy?

Humans are not designed to be happy, or even content. Instead, we are designed primarily to survive and reproduce, like every other creature in the natural world. A state of contentment is discouraged by nature because it would lower our guard against possible threats to our survival.

How many people have ever been happy?

They amounted to precisely 14. Happiness, as the Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes put it, is “like a feather flying in the air. It flies light, but not for very long.” Happiness is a human construct, an abstract idea with no equivalent in actual human experience.

Is there such a thing as happiness?

Postulating that there is no such thing as happiness may appear to be a purely negative message, but the silver lining, the consolation, is the knowledge that dissatisfaction is not a personal failure. If you are unhappy at times, this is not a shortcoming that demands urgent repair, as the happiness gurus would have it.

What can we learn from Evolution about happiness?

The fact that evolution has prioritised the development of a big frontal lobe in our brain (which gives us excellent executive and analytical abilities) over a natural ability to be happy, tells us a lot about nature’s priorities.