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Lionel Page

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Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

Yeah, look, that's... And actually, that goes back to my PhD. My PhD was on that topic in education. It sounds, you know, when you say that, it sounds like maybe some people on the left would say, well, you're saying that people who are from a lower social background are privileged or that people from a higher social background are disadvantaged.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

You know what? It's true.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

You know what? It's true.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

You know what? It's true.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

That's right. Well, there is a kind of hedonic happiness advantage of being from a low social background and rising up.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

That's right. Well, there is a kind of hedonic happiness advantage of being from a low social background and rising up.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

That's right. Well, there is a kind of hedonic happiness advantage of being from a low social background and rising up.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

Because then what you have is that, you know, if you use your original social background as a comparison point, and it's natural to do so because even as I said, you know, if you use your peers and you come from a low social background and you look at people who are your friends and maybe they're still your friends, Now you think, well, I did well.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

Because then what you have is that, you know, if you use your original social background as a comparison point, and it's natural to do so because even as I said, you know, if you use your peers and you come from a low social background and you look at people who are your friends and maybe they're still your friends, Now you think, well, I did well.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

Because then what you have is that, you know, if you use your original social background as a comparison point, and it's natural to do so because even as I said, you know, if you use your peers and you come from a low social background and you look at people who are your friends and maybe they're still your friends, Now you think, well, I did well.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

And so you have these comparisons which helps you have this outlook on life. Am I unsatisfied with my life? Well, I did very well relative to where I started from, and that makes you happy. On the contrary, if you're born from a very highly successful social background, well, the bar is super high.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

And so you have these comparisons which helps you have this outlook on life. Am I unsatisfied with my life? Well, I did very well relative to where I started from, and that makes you happy. On the contrary, if you're born from a very highly successful social background, well, the bar is super high.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

And so you have these comparisons which helps you have this outlook on life. Am I unsatisfied with my life? Well, I did very well relative to where I started from, and that makes you happy. On the contrary, if you're born from a very highly successful social background, well, the bar is super high.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

So if your father or mother, they are lawyers, well, if you don't do a super high education achievement, well, let's say a very high educational achievement. It's just the normal standard that you need to achieve. It's not, you can't be super happy. It's just normal. And so that's a high pressure. And what you observe is that there is a kind of a, you know, that's what I'm saying.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

So if your father or mother, they are lawyers, well, if you don't do a super high education achievement, well, let's say a very high educational achievement. It's just the normal standard that you need to achieve. It's not, you can't be super happy. It's just normal. And so that's a high pressure. And what you observe is that there is a kind of a, you know, that's what I'm saying.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

So if your father or mother, they are lawyers, well, if you don't do a super high education achievement, well, let's say a very high educational achievement. It's just the normal standard that you need to achieve. It's not, you can't be super happy. It's just normal. And so that's a high pressure. And what you observe is that there is a kind of a, you know, that's what I'm saying.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

I don't want to say that because there's a lot of questions about privilege, et cetera. But people were born in a privileged background you observe sometimes more risk-taking and also they want to do some different line of work because they want to escape the comparison.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

I don't want to say that because there's a lot of questions about privilege, et cetera. But people were born in a privileged background you observe sometimes more risk-taking and also they want to do some different line of work because they want to escape the comparison.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

I don't want to say that because there's a lot of questions about privilege, et cetera. But people were born in a privileged background you observe sometimes more risk-taking and also they want to do some different line of work because they want to escape the comparison.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

So if your parents, maybe they are lawyers, et cetera, maybe you want to become an artist because you want to be in a dimension of, social comparisons where you can escape the comparison.