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D. How Satisfaction determines happiness, and why do achievers as well as non-achievers both mostly remain unhappy?
Happiness is a persistent state of satisfaction. So if you are satisfied every day, you will be happy every day. However, one who achieves nothing gets no satisfaction and therefore remains unhappy. On the other hand, achievers remain unhappy till they achieve the next goal. Because the sense achievements are shortlived(as it is a feeling), and stories of success keep getting faded, the more one achieves the more unhappy one remains.
But if achievement also makes us unhappy, why does everyone push us to achieve more?
Corporations, society, and average people never want you to be satisfied, because in that case, you will slow down. So everyone tricks you to chase that elusive satisfaction by setting and achieving higher goals.
When you are not thriving, due to not meeting the key biological need of thriving you start feeling dead. In such a situation, your energy dips. Due to unhappiness, you start experiencing a negative energy in you. Negativity spreads like a virus and affects everyone around you. Therefore people motivate you to set and chase goals. At least you will be happy some days after and once you achieve your goals.
