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• A reply on Talk: Michael Norton: How to buy happiness

  Dec 25 2012: Hi Barry,
  
  From my understanding, your answer talks about peoples characters, rather then their feeling at the moment, which is by the way an important issue by itself.
  There can be a happy person by it's nature - that will easily answer Yes if he is happy, and No if he isn't, because it's clear to him.
  And there can be an unhappy person by it's nature, that will have problem with this question by default, and maybe especially on him - the effect of asking him first "Have you donated?" and then "are you happy?" will affect his answer.
  Maybe you have heared about the "Happiness project" by Gretchen Rubin? She talks there about the problem of thinking about your happiness - the need itself to decide whether you happy or not, effects that feeling immidiately, simply because you suddenly too aware of your situation, feelings, thoughts etc, and the thinking of "am I happy?" may by itself change your feeling :)
  If you haven't read the book - highly recommended!
  
  Regarding your challenge - there is a huge difference between asking a person face to face if he is happy (especially if he is not a stranger) and between sending him an SMS from a survey... and of course, if people signed for survey - they will answer one of the answers given (Yes or No) simply because they have no other choice :) but if they did have a choice - it could have been any other answer (don't know, Im ok etc).
  Happy and Unhappy are not the only 2 possible feelings! we can feel neither of them, but something in between...
  That's why I suppose sending at least an option to choose happinees level (say 1-10) would make more sense...
  
  Cheers!
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  A comment on Talk: Liz Diller: A giant bubble for debate

  May 11 2012: I think that the talk would be appreciated and valued more if it was concentrated to 4-5 miuntes long, and more modest.
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  A comment on Talk: Michael Norton: How to buy happiness

  Apr 25 2012: Good talk.
  
  Though I have some thoughts about it...
  Have you thought about the fact that measuring ourselves happiness is pretty problematic?
  I mean - it really can be that I would tell you that I'm happier after donating money - simply because I think this is how I should be, that that is what you and society expect from me, or more then that - I would say that I fell happier to make myself feeling better for not spending money on myself...
  
  What I'm saying is that there is a deeper meaning to the question - how happy are you now, the simple answers people give are not a good criteria for measurement in my opinion, because its more complex then that.
  
  Another thing:
  you said that you asked people if they donated money recently and then asked how happy they are in general.
  I wonder what would happen if you first asked how happy they are in general, and only after that asked if they donated recently...
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  A comment on Conversation: What do you do after having a TED Conversation?

  Sep 27 2011: Having another TED conversation...