Happiness

There are many philosophies available around the world to live a happy life, like Buddhism, stoicism, Brahmakumari, Swaminarayan, etc. But here we will discuss practical philosophy, which enables us to become happy. Our happiness in life depends on mental health, physical health, and financial health. You can achieve your happiness with your physical health and mental health as a "monk". You can renounce sex, wealth, attachment, and luxuries, but in the modern world, this is not possible for everyone. Financial health liberates you from everything and allows you to spend time with the people you care about. has wisely said, "When you meet a prostitute, she prays to God for suffering and the world is striving for sex." When you meet people, they talk about the pleasure they get in the short term, which comes from food, organisms, gambling, etc. People don't differentiate between happiness and pleasure.

     The first step towards your increasing happiness is that you realise you can. This step is not easy and many people are stuck there. They believe happiness can not develop or achieve that, so they devalue it. You can say, "I want to be happy." This is a skill you can develop until you get better and better at it. This is not God-given to you. Your goals are your desires. You are working hard because you think there is happiness, but after achieving that, you again step back. You desire something. So happiness is the process of understanding, the process of self-discovery. 

   The second step towards your increasing happiness is the quality of your decisions. You can be successful by making the wrong decision, but your life will become a misery. Your sleep becomes worse. You cannot make perfect decisions. If one person makes an 85% good decision and the other makes a 60% good decision, you are way ahead of the game in the long run. There is no need to do hard work all the time. You can be a smart decision-maker and have success. Always try to focus on the process of making good decisions by avoiding psychological bias. A person who works at McDonald's for 60 hours a week earns much less than a dentist who works for 60 hours a week. We need to do smart work with good decisions rather than hard work. Hard work doesn't matter; the quality of hard work matters. 

    The third step towards increasing happiness is reducing our negative emotions. We cannot eliminate ego, envy, and anger, but we can reduce them. It is not greed that drives the world, but envy. Charlie Munger says, " Envy is a stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. " So a peaceful mind is always better than any emotion. You can think better by avoiding biases.

 Finally, if you are smart then why aren't you happy? think