If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy, Then You’re Spending Wrong
Run out of money for a month and tell me what happens
Rich people who know nothing about wine don’t have better wine cellars than others.
In the same way, rich people who know nothing about happiness are not happier than others.
Just as experience is up to you, happiness is something you can create in your life. You don’t have to wait and be surprised when it appears. You know that this is what makes you happy and that’s it.
Money and happiness are the same things. But money is seen as the son of the devil. Only it isn’t.
This is the reason why we want to consume today and not tomorrow
We believe that we will be happier here and now than we will be in the future. The problem is that it’s not true. And it’s a prediction of future mistakes.
Emotions in the future are no less strong than they are today. By consuming today, we lose our happiness in nostalgia.
Often the things we think will make us happy don’t make us happy.
When people ask the question “How happy are you today?” It doesn’t matter if you have a lot of money or not, you will say you are happy.
If you ask the question, “How happy are you with your life?” then people with money are much happier.
Buy lots of small pleasures instead of a few big ones
What matters most to us when it comes to the experience of happiness is our ability to adapt.
If we adapt to the best things we can buy with money, we’re better off buying lots of small pleasures.
Better to have coffee in town, get a manicure, massage, lunch out, and buy quality clothes than to spend money on big purchases like a car or a dream vacation to exotic islands.
It’s not wrong to make big purchases. But when money is limited, we get more “happiness” for the money when we buy many small things.
Yet as long as money is tight, it might be better to devote our financial resources to buying dozens of lovely things, rather than dozens of things that we will use once or twice and put aside.
Happiness is more about having many experiences over and over again, rather than doing them only once, but intentionally.
Relax, I’ll explain it another way.
Children who take a carousel ride every two weeks are happier than those who ride a roller coaster once a year.
Longing is free happiness. Use this
A person who buys a cake and eats it immediately gets an experience of X amount of happiness. But a person who saves his cake to eat it gets the same X doses of happiness by eating it.
This applies to many different things and contexts.
This is even if the event itself is not so pleasant. An example might be that you crave a holiday and then it rains.
The experience of happiness associated with a wish is stronger than the experience of happiness that comes with remembering an event.
Everyday life is more important than you think. Value it
No matter how you should spend your money, it is better to think about how a purchase will affect your time.
Would you rather buy a small house in good condition or a larger house for the same price?
The bigger house may seem like the better option, but if that means you have to trade nights and weekends with friends for nights and weekends with work, then it may not be a smart deal.
After we buy our new house, our experience of happiness doesn’t just depend on buying the house. Like the kids being able to be in the garden.
It will also be due to several things that have nothing to do with home ownership.
It will be due to birthday celebrations, concerts, a computer that doesn’t work, spilled food, or a broken hard drive.
The problem is that these “irrelevant” details are rarely seen when we focus our “mental telescope” on a major future event. Our future home.
This is why we don’t give importance to the positive emotional impact of the event we are focusing on.
The conclusion to be drawn is this:
If someone thinks that a large individual purchase will have a long-term effect on their experience of happiness, they will probably make a better and more realistic prediction of their happiness by thinking about a typical day in their own life.