How stimuli keep us from being happy

 We receive millions and millions of stimuli almost 24 hours a day, but how many of these stimuli are useful to improve our lives and be more joyful, serene and happy?

Open each of your favorite social media platforms, including YouTube, one by one. Now, look at the screen and count how many of the posts and videos can somehow improve your life. If you watch television, do you do the same? How many of the things you watch and listen to can improve your well-being?
Perform the same test with the radio, newspapers, and everything else you regularly consult. What stimuli do they offer you?

We all chase happiness, but we all forget that it must be achieved.

Happiness is like a good dish; it requires specific ingredients to create it.
The four main ingredients are maintaining optimal health and physical fitness, having beneficial and harmonious relationships with others, managing money rather than being managed by it, and maintaining a proper self-awareness of one's strengths and weaknesses.

Regarding this last ingredient, awareness, it's good to know that only by leveraging one's strengths—that is, one's innate talents—can one live a full and fulfilling life. Simply put, if you like working with wood, you should be a carpenter, not a postal worker aiming for a secure job.
You know all the frustrated and irritating people you find in public offices? These are the ones who chose a permanent position rather than flourishing according to their nature.
The result?
We have a terrible public service, a high number of depressed people, and a shortage of talented professionals whose talent could improve our country and the world with their passion for their work.

This is what it means to chase the security of money instead of happiness.
But you need money to live, you might say.
Well, we've seen the kind of society we've created: a consumer society, one of social comparison based on appearance, of envy and indebtedness.
Is that worth it?

Personal development, investing in one's cognitive and behavioral improvement, is essential today more than ever.