Happiness or Joy
This article in NYT on difference between Happiness and Joy and how it affects us is really thought provoking. ================================== The Moral Peril of Meritocracy Our individualistic culture inflames the ego and numbs the spirit. Failure teaches us who we are. By David Brooks [Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/moral-revolution-david-brooks.html ] Many of the people I admire lead lives that have a two-mountain shape. They got out of school, began their career, started a family and identified the mountain they thought they were meant to climb — I’m going to be an entrepreneur, a doctor, a cop. They did the things society encourages us to do, like make a mark, become successful, buy a home, raise a family, pursue happiness. People on the first mountain spend a lot of time on reputation management. They ask: What do people think of me? Where do I rank? They’re trying to win the victories the ego enjoys. These hustling years...