In this book the author gives us a new perception of what our happiness can be made of. He gives a lot of credit to the competitiveness as a key motivator in achieving goals and developing ourselves. He believes that biologically in the human kind the happiness is correlated to achievement by stating that most people have a deep need to work and create things.
We need and we love the rat race because it gives to us the stimuli to achieve and this urge to accomplish things is natural and we should not try to repress that.
Firstly the author set out to write a book about how Americans were destroying themselves by chasing success and achievement. Soon, however, he realized that it was that very pursuit that makes us happiest.
Thinking critically I wouldn’t completely agree with that point of view because we notice that in overloaded periods we become more stressful and anxious, which at my opinion doesn’t really lead to happiness. On the other hand sitting down in front of the tv doesn’t bring happy moments. It should be really a balanced situation between work and relax.
Sadihana Aliraj
i think that having competitors really makes you more productive and more efficient. it gives you a chance to improve and to come up with new ideas. by being competitive and surviving in the market gives you a kind of satisfaction, it makes you happy.
YanıtlaSilI agree with you Erald but it is difficult to be all our life to fighting with our competitors and with ourselv to for riching a good job a high salary,...because when we reach all these maybe we have lost really what was our purpose,...maybe this don‘t bring to us happiness.
YanıtlaSilWell i agree with both of you and not with Sadihana, because if you are overloaded to work, you can do something about it, but this is you opinion and i respect it. In fact i think that you should take into consideration in changing your job:))
YanıtlaSilI totally agree with you on the last part of your post. If we compete with other people each and every single day of our lives we may be very unhappy. However, if this period of high stress, pressure and tension is to be followed by a quite, relaxing, and peaceful time we may feel very happy. I believe that it is the combination of both stressful and quiet times that really makes us appreciate life for its diversity and its complexity.
YanıtlaSil