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Re:Is the Default Mode of the Brain to Suffer? by joostdevries on Saturday January 28, 2017 @03:43AM (#13505524)
That reminds me of how, back in university, a mate said to me over beers: "Happiness is the derivative of well being"

He's a professor of statistical econometrics now.

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Re:Is the Default Mode of the Brain to Suffer? by katzgrau on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:51AM (#13507306)
A very mathematical but insightful way of stating it.

My usual way of putting it is that happiness is relative. You can only be happy if you came from a state of lesser happiness.

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