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PSYCHOLOGY FACTS
Smart people tend to have fewer mates than the average person. The smarter the individual, the more selective they become.
I am a loner. Is it because I am smart?
WELCOME TO PAGE 100 !!
@dustinc we hit the goallllll #hype hype hype
Here we go. Page 100!!!
@FrankZ @TrK @MrEd @chitree and everyone else who made this happen, we are here. On Page 100!!!
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oh my god their eyes will give me nightmares
Hype it up, yes! Tomorrow's New Year's eve. Hope dustin's got some surprises for us. But, I won't mind if he decides to spend the holidays with his family. He's been doing a lot lately. Dude needs rest.
Then, you will find this one deadly:-
Alright. Time for me to hit the sack. I will see you all in a few hours. Thanks for all the hype, guys. Keep the party alive!
I am here, I am here! But Chef is away...
VMWare does a great job with GPU passthrough for video if you set it up. I remember playing Windows games on Linux that way over 10 years ago & they worked great!
yes, he is
Building Something Makes Us Love It More
"You'll get more joy from the things in your home when you make them yourself," Palmer writes in Happiness Hacks. "That was the finding of a group of researchers who found that when a group of subjects exerted effort to produce three different products (IKEA storage boxes, origami, and Lego models) it increased the value that was placed on them.
Scandinavia Dominates in Happiness
You can't touch Scandinavia when it comes to highest levels of happiness. According to the United Nations' World Happiness Report of 2017, the happiest countries were Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, respectively. Compare that to the top three in 2012, the first year the report was released: Denmark, Finland, and Norway, respectively.
Just want to say that it's page 100 now.
One more day to end 2023..bye 2023
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Scandinavia Dominates in Happiness
You can't touch Scandinavia when it comes to highest levels of happiness. According to the United Nations' World Happiness Report of 2017, the happiest countries were Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, respectively. Compare that to the top three in 2012, the first year the report was released: Denmark, Finland, and Norway, respectively.
GDP Is Key
Have you ever wondered how the UN measures the happiness level of a country? Through a whole slew of variables relating to the quality of life of the citizens and plenty of other factors. But according to the UN, three-quarters of the differences among these countries come down to just six variables, including GDP per capita, healthy years of life expectancy, and level of social support. The happiest countries all did great on these factors.
There's Happiness Inequality Throughout the World
Like so many other resources, a wealth of happiness is not enjoyed equally throughout the world. In her lecture, Science of Happiness, Harvard evolutionary psychologist Nancy Etcoff explains that, "We see here in the United States one of the highest levels of happiness…. We see parts of Africa [with] tremendous unhappiness … What we find is that circumstances mean a huge amount when people have very little. So if you have great poverty, if you have tyranny, if you have great inequality, these things are going to drag down happiness."
The Internet Does Not Make You Happy
If you don't know, the Internet is not a good place to go looking for happiness. That was the determination of a study that asked subjects to state what they go online to do and their level of happiness. The subjects who saw the Internet as a way to connect with others or to help solve a personal problem, were found to be more likely to suffer depression, social anxiety, and worse (compared to those who just went online for active tasks like seeking out information or sending email).
Happiness Isn't Everything
While we may think that all you need is happiness, it turns out that a better goal is to have a good balance of so-called "emodiversity" (feeling a mix of emotions such as joy, amusement, and sometimes melancholy or less positive emotions). A study of more than 37,000 people found that high levels of this emodiversity resulted in higher levels of physical and mental health. So look for more than just mere happiness.
The Pursuit of Happiness Can Be Bad for Relationships
While all relationships aim to be happy ones, dedicating too much time to finding happiness can end up creating the opposite result. Researchers found that the more value subjects put on happiness, the lonelier they described feeling in daily diary entries.
Accepting Negative Feelings Helps You Overcome Them
The flip side of that study is that those who accepted their negative feelings were able to overcome them with greater speed and to start feeling better more quickly. A study that asked those with panic disorders to either accept, suppress, or control their feelings of anxiety found that those who were told to accept them overcome their negative feelings more quickly than either of the other two groups.
Expressing Unhappiness Can Help Boost Your Happiness
"As with many emotions, the feeling of loneliness can often seem like something we can't help—something external to ourselves that we must simply accept," Palmer writes in Happiness Hacks. "But an analysis of intervention strategies for reducing loneliness in adults found that it could in fact work well to lead individuals to change the way they respond to their feelings of loneliness. Just by encouraging people to tell someone about their feelings, the researchers saw progress in the subjects and improvement in their moods."