People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
I think people really want to be happy.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.
People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.
Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
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