lukeprog comments on How to Be Happy - Less Wrong
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This is a great post. I don't mean to hijack it, but it's amusing to me to match up the happiness advice with my own life. So skipping over 1 and 2 on the list:
Funnily enough, I don't feel unhappy, or at least I don't feel as though I feel unhappy. I do think killing myself would 'objectively make things better' though.
Well at least you don't feel unhappy!
One concern I didn't mention above is that unfortunately, pursuing happiness consciously can in some cases lead to unhappiness, because you are constantly paying attention to how happy or unhappy you are, and over-analyze the situation. So if you decide to try to change any of these things, probably best to pursue them for their own sake rather than for the sake of happiness, since you don't feel unhappy today.
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