Have you ever felt that you are not happy from you life even if you have *objectively* successful life (e.g. a lot of money, many publications, and etc.)? And have you asked yourself what was wrong with your life?
Accidentally, I found this article “Happiness doesn’t Come in Bottles” by Walter J. Freeman. It is about happiness and its connection to the dynamical and chemical phenomenon happening in our brain. I do not want to summarize the article. Instead, I suggest you to read this short article.
I do not know if all results and suggestions in this paper are precise (the paper is a bit old and it is not written as a report of scientific discovery), but I know reading the paper was/is stimulating for myself. Maybe we geek people in the community (be in ML, CS, EE, Math, etc.) need more advice of this kind (no offense for sure!).
Interesting article. Here’s another one on this topic — http://www.dnue.ac.kr/~ygjo/Time-new-science-of-happiness.pdf
There’s a camp of psychologists thinking that happiness has a set point, mostly determined by genes, and another one that thinks you can increase happiness.
One thing that is known to increase happiness is exercise, for instance
http://www.cebp.nl/media/m1121.pdf , however that might fall under “genetic” component, since some people might be genetically predisposed against exercise
Thanks Yaroslav! I’ll read them all. It is needed. (;