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02-02-2015, 03:30 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Just take a look at the danes. Why are they the happiest people in the world? Perhaps they are contented with their low expectations. Unlike Singaporeans who expects everything to be perfect. How can we ever be happy and contented if our expectations are so high?
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"few years ago, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Southern Denmark, Kaare Christensen, published a slightly tongue-in-cheek overview of what he saw as the possible reason for the Danes’ happiness, entitled “Why Danes Are Smug: A Comparative Study of Life Satisfaction in the European Union.” His explanations ranged from the fact that the Danes might have been drunk when responding to questionnaires to their surprise 1992 European Championship in soccer victory (not only did they beat Germany in the final, but it took place in Sweden: a joyous confluence of multiple revenge fantasies). But Christensen and his team also concluded that low expectations were key: “If expectations are unrealistically high they could also be the basis of disappointment and low life satisfaction,” Christensen writes. “Year after year they are pleasantly surprised to find that not everything is getting more rotten in the state of Denmark."
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar...#disqus_thread (http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/the-danish-dont-have-the-secret-to-happiness/384930/#disqus_thread)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?199556-Are-sinkies-expectations-are-unrealistically-high&goto=newpost).
Just take a look at the danes. Why are they the happiest people in the world? Perhaps they are contented with their low expectations. Unlike Singaporeans who expects everything to be perfect. How can we ever be happy and contented if our expectations are so high?
Quote:
"few years ago, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Southern Denmark, Kaare Christensen, published a slightly tongue-in-cheek overview of what he saw as the possible reason for the Danes’ happiness, entitled “Why Danes Are Smug: A Comparative Study of Life Satisfaction in the European Union.” His explanations ranged from the fact that the Danes might have been drunk when responding to questionnaires to their surprise 1992 European Championship in soccer victory (not only did they beat Germany in the final, but it took place in Sweden: a joyous confluence of multiple revenge fantasies). But Christensen and his team also concluded that low expectations were key: “If expectations are unrealistically high they could also be the basis of disappointment and low life satisfaction,” Christensen writes. “Year after year they are pleasantly surprised to find that not everything is getting more rotten in the state of Denmark."
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar...#disqus_thread (http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/the-danish-dont-have-the-secret-to-happiness/384930/#disqus_thread)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?199556-Are-sinkies-expectations-are-unrealistically-high&goto=newpost).