The story begins with a story many people have heard about a late-year millionaire who walks through the warm sun in the winter and meets a tramp at the base of the wall. He asks the tramp: "You Why not go to work? "
Wanderer: "Why do you want to work?
"You can make money."
"What do you earn?"
"Earn money to live a big house, you can enjoy delicious food, and family can enjoy their grandchildren."
"and then?"
"When you are old, you can be carefree, like me, every day for a walk, the sun.
"Am I not in the sun now?"
In this case,
There are many versions of this story, the other version is rich and fishermen dialogue, its meaning is roughly the same, refers to the rich pursuit of comfortable life, the poor have long been enjoying. This parable seems to describe a contradictory world, but it really contradictory? actually not. As long as we are a little careful analysis, we will find that the biggest difference between the two men is that the rich are likely to children and grandchildren, and the tramp is likely to have no children. Biology tells us that the most important task of any living thing is to spread the genes, to produce offspring, evolution will give those who are best at producing descendants of the greatest reward, for those who can not produce offspring, the punishment is to annihilate its genes. In this way, after thousands of generations, all the creatures have become do everything possible to pursue the achievements of biological reproduction, and this motivation is full of our subconscious, so that we do not even realize.
In this case,
People are stupid animals, so the gene can not and people reason, the gene can not say: "Hey, you go to find a man / woman, and then you have children, and finally raise the child, so we all have the advantage . "But that's not a big problem. Genes can do it by other means, such as designing a special set of brain mechanisms that secrete certain chemicals when certain genes hope to see things happen, Feel happy, in some genes do not want to see things happen, they stop the secretion of the chemical substances, so feel sad. This is the origin of human well-being.
In this case,
Some people say that people will be rich after the happiness, but sociologists conducted several surveys have completely rejected this argument, the United Kingdom is a developed country, per capita income is high, but now the British are not more happy than before, in the Other developed countries, the survey is the same situation, so some people doubt the pursuit of GDP growth in the end is for what. In fact, from the biological point of view, this survey results are obvious things. First of all, we want to see what is the driving force behind GDP growth, which is due to some people found some good opportunities to make big money, so big money in the GDP driven by the increase, but to attract them to make money is the driving force behind the gene Think that this can stand out in the crowd, by the opposite sex of greater concern, so that can increase the opportunities to reproduce. By the way, we can also explain why people particularly hate the economic development process of the gap between the rich and the poor, the so-called against the current, do not make money in the case of other people you did not earn, although from a rational point of view you do not have any loss, But the genes tell you that the likelihood of success of your offspring will be reduced, so you will feel inexplicable anger from the heart. For developed countries, the income of all people relative to a few decades ago are very high, but the gene does not think this increase in breeding opportunities to help, so happiness does not increase is a natural thing.
In this case,
Through the above description, we can get a less pleasant conclusion, that is, more money than others will bring you happiness, but we generally have no money on the fun at all. Another point must be noted that the happiness brought about by the money is just a moment of things, otherwise Buffett would be a high day. This happiness is reflected only when you jump from only 1 million to 10 million, when you have 10 million jumped to 1 million, when you have 10 million jumped to 10 million, that is, when Say you make money on a new level will feel happy, since the rapid decline in happiness, so you can only continue to earn more money to increase happiness. But no matter how much money you can earn, once found around people earn more than their own, then your happiness will immediately decline.
In this case,
Some of the above talk about money and happiness, but we all know that in addition to money can increase the achievements of reproduction, there are many other conditions, so there are many channels of well-being. For example, for many women, there is a very concerned about her husband is a very happy thing. From a biological point of view, this kind of husband to ensure that he will provide long-term help and support, so that children have a greater likelihood of adulthood, and have a good future.
In this case,
See here if there are people who feel that happiness and reproduction is okay, please consider such an example, why the greatest natural pleasure for humans (this is the ultimate happiness) when the orgasm? Because of orgasm and reproduction directly related to future generations. We use a variety of contraceptive measures is to deceive the gene, because we want to reward, but not to return.
In this case,
Here we are more in-depth talk about the generation mechanism of happiness. There is a well-known example: drug addicts, in the time of drug use will feel great happiness, or called pleasure. This is because people find a good way to deceive the gene (or bad), the gene through a substance called dopamine to regulate our well-being, secrete a little more, we are happy, happy; secretion was Less, we are sad, despair. Just the main components of drugs and this thing almost, so addicts who feel a strong pleasure. The downside is that a lot of stimulation in the moment makes the brain part of the original responsible for the secretion of dopamine completely stopped working, this person in the future in addition to continuing drug addiction and drug money can not find anything other than to do, because there is no Any other thing is pleasant. Drugs caused by the physical damage is permanent, not psychotherapy can save. Therefore, people who come out of drug rehabilitation, the relapse rate of up to 90%.
In this case,
Now we have found the key mechanism to control happiness, which is the secret switch of that strange chemical. We naturally think, will not different people of its switch traffic is different? Yes, the fact is, that is, some people are naturally born optimist, and some people born very pessimistic reasons. Scientists track more than a thousand pairs of twins, test their happiness and found that identical twins and fraternal twins consistent well-being rate was 0.44 and 0.08, which means a great part of human well-being from the genetic, natural A large flow switch, then, is optimist, otherwise it is pessimistic. Scientists tracking these twins for 20 years, they found another surprising fact that human well-being with childhood care, adult economic status and environmental relevance is very small, that is, If you are an optimistic person and can always appreciate the many pleasures of life, then you 10 years later, even if the environment has changed dramatically, you are still optimistic, and vice versa.
In this case,
Now we can almost describe the well-being of mankind, the following is a summary of the main points:
In this case,
1, genes control our sense of well-being, its means is to master some of the chemical substances in the switch;
2, different people, born of its switch size (this is just a metaphor) is different, so it was natural optimism, it was born pessimistic;
3, in some genes want to see things happen, the switch to open more, so we feel happy meet and happy, but time will not be too long, the gene will soon switch to recovery, which means that we also To continue to work for the reward;
4, genes determine what kind of things the standard of hope is very simple, that it can enhance our prosperity achievements, is a good thing, otherwise it is a bad thing;
5, some religions, such as Buddhism is to help us out of the arms of the genetic control, Buddhism through its own set of strange logic, making us think that life is the endless sea of bitterness, the initiative to reject the gene we want to do, so we succeed Detached, but Buddhism to promote the bliss of the world is entirely illusory, this world is about a world full of drugs.
Wanderer: "Why do you want to work?
"You can make money."
"What do you earn?"
"Earn money to live a big house, you can enjoy delicious food, and family can enjoy their grandchildren."
"and then?"
"When you are old, you can be carefree, like me, every day for a walk, the sun.
"Am I not in the sun now?"
In this case,
There are many versions of this story, the other version is rich and fishermen dialogue, its meaning is roughly the same, refers to the rich pursuit of comfortable life, the poor have long been enjoying. This parable seems to describe a contradictory world, but it really contradictory? actually not. As long as we are a little careful analysis, we will find that the biggest difference between the two men is that the rich are likely to children and grandchildren, and the tramp is likely to have no children. Biology tells us that the most important task of any living thing is to spread the genes, to produce offspring, evolution will give those who are best at producing descendants of the greatest reward, for those who can not produce offspring, the punishment is to annihilate its genes. In this way, after thousands of generations, all the creatures have become do everything possible to pursue the achievements of biological reproduction, and this motivation is full of our subconscious, so that we do not even realize.
In this case,
People are stupid animals, so the gene can not and people reason, the gene can not say: "Hey, you go to find a man / woman, and then you have children, and finally raise the child, so we all have the advantage . "But that's not a big problem. Genes can do it by other means, such as designing a special set of brain mechanisms that secrete certain chemicals when certain genes hope to see things happen, Feel happy, in some genes do not want to see things happen, they stop the secretion of the chemical substances, so feel sad. This is the origin of human well-being.
In this case,
Some people say that people will be rich after the happiness, but sociologists conducted several surveys have completely rejected this argument, the United Kingdom is a developed country, per capita income is high, but now the British are not more happy than before, in the Other developed countries, the survey is the same situation, so some people doubt the pursuit of GDP growth in the end is for what. In fact, from the biological point of view, this survey results are obvious things. First of all, we want to see what is the driving force behind GDP growth, which is due to some people found some good opportunities to make big money, so big money in the GDP driven by the increase, but to attract them to make money is the driving force behind the gene Think that this can stand out in the crowd, by the opposite sex of greater concern, so that can increase the opportunities to reproduce. By the way, we can also explain why people particularly hate the economic development process of the gap between the rich and the poor, the so-called against the current, do not make money in the case of other people you did not earn, although from a rational point of view you do not have any loss, But the genes tell you that the likelihood of success of your offspring will be reduced, so you will feel inexplicable anger from the heart. For developed countries, the income of all people relative to a few decades ago are very high, but the gene does not think this increase in breeding opportunities to help, so happiness does not increase is a natural thing.
In this case,
Through the above description, we can get a less pleasant conclusion, that is, more money than others will bring you happiness, but we generally have no money on the fun at all. Another point must be noted that the happiness brought about by the money is just a moment of things, otherwise Buffett would be a high day. This happiness is reflected only when you jump from only 1 million to 10 million, when you have 10 million jumped to 1 million, when you have 10 million jumped to 10 million, that is, when Say you make money on a new level will feel happy, since the rapid decline in happiness, so you can only continue to earn more money to increase happiness. But no matter how much money you can earn, once found around people earn more than their own, then your happiness will immediately decline.
In this case,
Some of the above talk about money and happiness, but we all know that in addition to money can increase the achievements of reproduction, there are many other conditions, so there are many channels of well-being. For example, for many women, there is a very concerned about her husband is a very happy thing. From a biological point of view, this kind of husband to ensure that he will provide long-term help and support, so that children have a greater likelihood of adulthood, and have a good future.
In this case,
See here if there are people who feel that happiness and reproduction is okay, please consider such an example, why the greatest natural pleasure for humans (this is the ultimate happiness) when the orgasm? Because of orgasm and reproduction directly related to future generations. We use a variety of contraceptive measures is to deceive the gene, because we want to reward, but not to return.
In this case,
Here we are more in-depth talk about the generation mechanism of happiness. There is a well-known example: drug addicts, in the time of drug use will feel great happiness, or called pleasure. This is because people find a good way to deceive the gene (or bad), the gene through a substance called dopamine to regulate our well-being, secrete a little more, we are happy, happy; secretion was Less, we are sad, despair. Just the main components of drugs and this thing almost, so addicts who feel a strong pleasure. The downside is that a lot of stimulation in the moment makes the brain part of the original responsible for the secretion of dopamine completely stopped working, this person in the future in addition to continuing drug addiction and drug money can not find anything other than to do, because there is no Any other thing is pleasant. Drugs caused by the physical damage is permanent, not psychotherapy can save. Therefore, people who come out of drug rehabilitation, the relapse rate of up to 90%.
In this case,
Now we have found the key mechanism to control happiness, which is the secret switch of that strange chemical. We naturally think, will not different people of its switch traffic is different? Yes, the fact is, that is, some people are naturally born optimist, and some people born very pessimistic reasons. Scientists track more than a thousand pairs of twins, test their happiness and found that identical twins and fraternal twins consistent well-being rate was 0.44 and 0.08, which means a great part of human well-being from the genetic, natural A large flow switch, then, is optimist, otherwise it is pessimistic. Scientists tracking these twins for 20 years, they found another surprising fact that human well-being with childhood care, adult economic status and environmental relevance is very small, that is, If you are an optimistic person and can always appreciate the many pleasures of life, then you 10 years later, even if the environment has changed dramatically, you are still optimistic, and vice versa.
In this case,
Now we can almost describe the well-being of mankind, the following is a summary of the main points:
In this case,
1, genes control our sense of well-being, its means is to master some of the chemical substances in the switch;
2, different people, born of its switch size (this is just a metaphor) is different, so it was natural optimism, it was born pessimistic;
3, in some genes want to see things happen, the switch to open more, so we feel happy meet and happy, but time will not be too long, the gene will soon switch to recovery, which means that we also To continue to work for the reward;
4, genes determine what kind of things the standard of hope is very simple, that it can enhance our prosperity achievements, is a good thing, otherwise it is a bad thing;
5, some religions, such as Buddhism is to help us out of the arms of the genetic control, Buddhism through its own set of strange logic, making us think that life is the endless sea of bitterness, the initiative to reject the gene we want to do, so we succeed Detached, but Buddhism to promote the bliss of the world is entirely illusory, this world is about a world full of drugs.