So the first step was to classify each cells according to its happiness level according to the following: Unhappy: aggregated happiness < 5.91 (lowest 15%) Happy: aggregated happiness > 6.35 (top 15%) Neutral: all other cells.
"While my compensation isn't what it was, my happiness level is far higher.
What can you do to get the baby's "happiness level" up?
According to psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness, about 50% is down to our baseline happiness level, which is something we're born with.
No matter what your future endeavors may be, let the ensuing success inflate your happiness level, and never settle for what you are not overjoyed with.
The owner drops by each table a couple of times during the evening to make sure the happiness level doesn't sag.
Similarly, billionaire John Caudwell, founder of Phones4U, admitted on the BBC programme Britain's Spending Secrets that there are times when he would put his happiness level at just one or two out of 10.
Unless you're working in healthcare or as Lindt chocolatier, this might not seem like a daily occurrence, but by bringing a little joy to your colleagues you could also push your own happiness level up to Swiss proportions.
(Of course, that 50percentt are those who actually leave their unhappy marriages and not a particularly good indication of the happiness level or nightmare potential of those who remain).
When reporting on their own well-being, they exhibit a kind of equilibrium: After a loss (divorce, say) or a gain (a promotion), they typically return in time to about the same happiness level as before.
We do not so easily adjust, however, to the pleasure taken from acting altruistically: when we do kind things, we feel good and we continue to do so; our happiness level is raised and that default is set higher.
