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How do y ou know what m akes y ou happy ?Posted by satvikberi under Life Tactics | Tags: Happiness, Life Tactics |

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Say y ou eat a casserole that’s so blended y ou can’t tell what the ingredients are, and

lov e it. Then someone tells y ou that the casserole had some spinach-and incidentally ,

this is the first time y ou’v e had spinach, ev er. Do y ou like spinach?

You can’t immediately tell, and the same is true of a lot of things in y our ev ery day life,

particularly when it comes to influences like y our job or where y ou liv e. Day to day

influences-weather, y our health, hormones, or hav ing a fight with y our girlfriend-

ty pically hav e a much bigger effect on y our mood at the moment than any thing long

term. How do y ou isolate the effects of any indiv idual source of emotion in y our life?

Two y ears ago I was absolutely certain that I would want to go to grad school for a PhD

in Math. Today I’m looking for a job in Finance, after realizing that what I liked about

Math wasn’t what I would be doing in grad school.

So how did I choose what to do? Rather than try to gauge emotion, I look at energy . It’s

easy to track what thoughts keep me awake and inspire me to action, v s. things that fill

me with dread and make me exhausted. I lov e solv ing problems. I lov e reading lots of

theory and seeing how it produces short, clev er solutions to v ery general problems with

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broad-ranging applications-that’s what I enjoy ed in Math. That’s what a lot of Math

education is like. But most research is about v ery specific problems that may or may not

hav e applications, and the number of people who read a giv en paper is v ery small.

When I thought about it, it was clear that I get most excited by projects with far-

reaching and measurable consequences. But the thought of doing work that almost no

one reads exhausts me.

Similarly , being around my SO makes me excited and more alert. My friends noticed

this before I ev en realized I had a crush on her.

Measuring energy is a major consideration y ou can use to decide where to work, liv e,

and y our general lifesty le. It’s a quick way to measure whether something makes y ou

happier. How do y ou measure y our happiness? What are some other indicators y ou can

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Long term accom plishm entsPosted by satvikberi under Brainstorms, Life Tactics | Tags: Brainstorms,

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What major, long term goals would I like to accomplish in the next 60 y ears?

Some brainstorms, in no particular order:

Long term: Combat financial fraud, tax reform, improv e education in the United States

(particularly Math education), improv e education around the world, inv ent truly

timesav ing dev ices or bring those to popular awareness, improv e health care in

America and across the world, reducing slav ery /exploitation, helping people reach their

potential.

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Why write this? It makes me realize that there are a lot of causes I would be happy

working for. On the other hand, none of them dominate. There are some I like more

than others, but on the whole, ultra-long term goals like these aren’t good motiv ation

for me. Kind of sad, but good to know.

So what is good motiv ation for me? Well, shorter term goals, day -to-day challenges, and

the skills I’ll learn. More on that later.

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