Jul 25, 2019 06:00:00

What does one aim to do to make people happy?

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Everyone wants to live happily, but people are divided into opinions on what happiness is. Therefore, economist Esteban Ortiz Ospina of Oxford University's Martin College of the Eighty-Year Follow-up Survey on Happiness, and 'Dozens of Nation Countries' The answers that have been seen from the results of the survey targeting

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◆ What is happiness in the first place
It is difficult to find out how to pursue happiness, as research shows that if you pursue happiness, you become unhappy .

Research that examines the relationship between GDP and life satisfaction indicates that there is a significant correlation between income and happiness.

The graph below shows the relationship between the scores of the questionnaire survey on life satisfaction and GDP per person, where the vertical axis shows satisfaction and the horizontal axis shows GDP. The trend is that as GDP increases, so does satisfaction. Japan is in the red frame, and its happiness level in 2017 is 5.9 out of 10, and GDP per capita is $ 39.022 (approx. 4.2 million yen).

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it is also true that there are studies that the effect of income on happiness is often over-estimated , according to Ortis Ospina, “We, who live in a rich country, are happy when they are blinded by their material goals. It may have gone away from the

◆ Human relationship is the key to a happy life
The most famous and long-term study of life and well-being is the Harvard study group, a group of researchers from Harvard, who has been doing research on adult development in Harvard for more than 80 years.

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The fourth-generation leader of the study, Robert Waldinger, sums up the results from this study: 'people with warmer relationships live longer and happier, and single dogs often die prematurely.' You are

The results of the World Value Survey (WVS), a large-scale survey of 38 countries around the world, also support Mr. Waldinger's idea.

The figure below shows the results of WVS's 4th survey, showing the level of happiness based on the questionnaire survey by country. The horizontal axis indicates the proportion of those who answered 'very happy' and 'very happy', and the green dots indicate at least once a month the degree of happiness of people interacting with friends, and the blue dots indicate It represents the happiness of people who have few exchanges. With a few exceptions, in many countries the green dot is located to the right of the blue dot, meaning that it has a high level of happiness.

In Japan, 87% of people who interact with friends say that they are happy, and 85% of those who do not interact with friends so much say that they are happy. Although there is only 2% difference, there seems to be a tendency in Japan that people who interact with friends also feel happiness.

Also, in a survey conducted in Germany, we asked them to answer freely the question 'What kind of improvement do you want to improve in order to be happy in the future?', And compare the tendency of the answers with the one year later happiness level The we.

As a result, while there was no change in the happiness level of those who answered 'I intend to find a better job,' I emphasize social connections such as 'I think I will spend more with my friends and family' It was found that those who gave the answers were actually happy.

◆ Conclusion
From these findings, Mr. Ortiz Ospina points out that 'people who were aggressive in improving social relationships are actually happy,' a healthy social relationship is for human well-being. It concludes that it is important.

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