Why in God’s Green Earth is the number-line backwards, and the negatives, on the right-hand side?
I have no way to understand what the author of this graph was trying to convey. Would be nice if OP spelled it out or found a more “dataisbeautiful” way of representing the data.
A Psych major told me about a study she learned in class. It measured life satisfaction in people in life changing situations, both good and bad (like some had terminal diagnoses while others won the lotto)
The results showed that while life events like this did change satisfaction, but only temporally. In the long run, people were about as happy before the event as after.
I also remember hearing about this a long time ago. Then I read an actual analysis of the phenomenon. The reality is far less… life affirming?
iirc, the actual “bad case” was people who had lost limbs. Immediately aftet the loss of their limb, they understandably felt bad. But over time, they felt better. However, notably, on average they still felt worse than before they lost their limb. This makes sense - even if after you lose a leg, you find a new job that is just as fulfilling as your previous one and make great friends and find new hobbies that accomodate your limitations, you still are missing a leg, which is going to be annoying when you are, like, grocery shopping.
Meanwhile, the lottery winners saw a spike in happiness after winning the lottery. Again, understandable. But after a while, they had returned to their previous level of happiness or worse. Why? Because they had lost all the money. They spent it frivilously, gave it out as loans to friends and family who never repaid them, or had it stolen. Not were they just as poor as when they started, they had also had the experience of losing the money and probably some friends along the way.
I like that. That’s powerful. Positive people can have terrible things happen to them and bounce back. While if you have a shitty attitude - even if you have amazing things happen to you, you’ll still be miserable.
Yep, the highest highs and lowest lows don’t last like we expect them to because our brains are constantly trying to achieve homeostasis. It’s the temporary movement upward or downward that causes big feelings.
It’s why it’s important to fight the urge to chase short term impulses or dwell on short term failures. You want to build long-term, steady sources of joy in your life.
Left side feels like the “Desired traits” section of a job application
What’s going on with all the Ls?
I wondered the same thing
Could it be a dyslexia helper to differentiate uppercase “i” and and lowercase “L”?
