Dr. Shige Oishi

So if you just look at the happiness or life satisfaction, then obviously the effect of negative natural disaster is really negative and long lasting. Time does not heal everything, unfortunately. But the silver lining of that is that they have I think more trust in humanities and more pro-social worldview after going through these natural disasters.

I am hoping that the concept like psychological richness will capture something positive about going through these difficult natural disasters, but as a community that comes together and there is something positive out of that.

I am hoping that the concept like psychological richness will capture something positive about going through these difficult natural disasters, but as a community that comes together and there is something positive out of that.

I am hoping that the concept like psychological richness will capture something positive about going through these difficult natural disasters, but as a community that comes together and there is something positive out of that.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with the William James equation. I mean, it's brilliant. It's really brilliant. But two ways to maximize the self esteem, right? One is maximize your success, then self esteem is higher. But the other approach is reduce your desire. So that's the more the Buddhist approach to life, right? If you want a lot, then the success has to be enormous in order to get the

I mean, there's nothing wrong with the William James equation. I mean, it's brilliant. It's really brilliant. But two ways to maximize the self esteem, right? One is maximize your success, then self esteem is higher. But the other approach is reduce your desire. So that's the more the Buddhist approach to life, right? If you want a lot, then the success has to be enormous in order to get the

I mean, there's nothing wrong with the William James equation. I mean, it's brilliant. It's really brilliant. But two ways to maximize the self esteem, right? One is maximize your success, then self esteem is higher. But the other approach is reduce your desire. So that's the more the Buddhist approach to life, right? If you want a lot, then the success has to be enormous in order to get the

equation like high outcome but by reducing right the ambitions even your success is a little desire is small then you could feel good about yourself so the formula is brilliant and indeed when you look at the happiest country in the world you know finnish finland norway and denmark and asked Dane, what's the secret to happiness? And they often say that. Don't expect too much. Lower expectation.

equation like high outcome but by reducing right the ambitions even your success is a little desire is small then you could feel good about yourself so the formula is brilliant and indeed when you look at the happiest country in the world you know finnish finland norway and denmark and asked Dane, what's the secret to happiness? And they often say that. Don't expect too much. Lower expectation.

equation like high outcome but by reducing right the ambitions even your success is a little desire is small then you could feel good about yourself so the formula is brilliant and indeed when you look at the happiest country in the world you know finnish finland norway and denmark and asked Dane, what's the secret to happiness? And they often say that. Don't expect too much. Lower expectation.

When do you know you have enough? And William James equation is brilliant in a sense that you can maximize the success or you can reduce the ambition and you can increase your self-esteem or in this case, happiness as well. But as I said... in my book that reducing the ambition part, yes, that works if you're trying to maximize happiness, but that could inadvertently

When do you know you have enough? And William James equation is brilliant in a sense that you can maximize the success or you can reduce the ambition and you can increase your self-esteem or in this case, happiness as well. But as I said... in my book that reducing the ambition part, yes, that works if you're trying to maximize happiness, but that could inadvertently

When do you know you have enough? And William James equation is brilliant in a sense that you can maximize the success or you can reduce the ambition and you can increase your self-esteem or in this case, happiness as well. But as I said... in my book that reducing the ambition part, yes, that works if you're trying to maximize happiness, but that could inadvertently

making you conservative as to whether should i go or should i stay kind of situation people get to tip into stay as an answer as opposed to go and i'm saying that once you get out of that equation And then there are something out there by making a lot of mistakes and not achieving things. Still, you can maximize something else. And that's something else to me is a psychological richness.

making you conservative as to whether should i go or should i stay kind of situation people get to tip into stay as an answer as opposed to go and i'm saying that once you get out of that equation And then there are something out there by making a lot of mistakes and not achieving things. Still, you can maximize something else. And that's something else to me is a psychological richness.

making you conservative as to whether should i go or should i stay kind of situation people get to tip into stay as an answer as opposed to go and i'm saying that once you get out of that equation And then there are something out there by making a lot of mistakes and not achieving things. Still, you can maximize something else. And that's something else to me is a psychological richness.

So don't reduce the ambition. Ambition could be big, but you just have to try. Even if you're not successful, that's okay. It's not okay in terms of happiness, but if you don't care about happiness, then you're okay, because you might get greater degree of psychological richness.

So don't reduce the ambition. Ambition could be big, but you just have to try. Even if you're not successful, that's okay. It's not okay in terms of happiness, but if you don't care about happiness, then you're okay, because you might get greater degree of psychological richness.

So don't reduce the ambition. Ambition could be big, but you just have to try. Even if you're not successful, that's okay. It's not okay in terms of happiness, but if you don't care about happiness, then you're okay, because you might get greater degree of psychological richness.

So job satisfaction is interesting that it is very highly correlated with the pay. So you can think about high paying job, right, as satisfying job. So computer scientist, data scientist, they're pretty happy. Surgeons happy. Lawyers actually are an exception. Financial sector people and so forth, they're all happy. But what is interesting is that pay scale also have the meaning in their job.