{"id":29698,"date":"2015-04-27T04:34:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T04:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=29698"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:16:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:46:37","slug":"the-measurement-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/the-measurement-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Measurement of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/The-Measurement-of-Happiness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29713\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/The-Measurement-of-Happiness.jpg\" alt=\"The Measurement of Happiness\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As today&#8217;s world strives to gather as much facts and figures for everything, be it NASA&#8217;s recent astronomical accomplishments or a general store owner&#8217;s daily sales, even emotions and feelings have come to be a measurable commodity. How happy can a person be ? This question used to be a short and sweet conversation with our friends or near-and-dear ones until recently. Now, very few must be approving when a peer simply says &#8216;I am happy&#8217; or &#8216;I am unhappy&#8217;. This focuses our attention towards the measurement of happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Since the world has grown subjectively rational, we need to develop a metric system to sustain people&#8217;s curiosity of how can one measure and compare their happiness with others. A good approach was undertaken by Bhutan&#8217;s fourth dragon king,\u00a0<strong>Jigme Singye Wangchuck.<\/strong> He gave a simple reasoning that real growth of an individual is more concerned with their &#8216;level&#8217; of happiness and satisfaction with life, rather than material successes as increase in GNP. He gave a logical statement that happiness for a farmer is through very different channels as compared to a businessman. While the farmer becomes happy at a good harvest, the businessman opts for better profit in the business. So, even the levels of measurement must be so flexible as to allow these differences to such levels as to not impact the logical outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Gross National Happiness (GNH)<\/strong>\u00a0was established by a panel of experts in their respective fields so that no aspect of life is left untouched. There are presently 9 domains in which one measures two important parameters &#8211; <strong>Sufficiency and Happiness.\u00a0<\/strong>While sufficiency is like the <strong><em>red line<\/em><\/strong> of an extension cord (any compression beyond a level will result in malfunctioning) which is the necessary border-line for a normal livelihood, happiness is like the\u00a0<strong><em>yellow line\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(beyond the point, performance declines) which measures the satisfaction levels of a person. Both measures explain when a person can live with current conditions and when the person is actually happy with it. If he is happy, he will work proficiently, encourage others to do same, have all aspects of his life taken into consideration and will strive for the betterment of those which are yet untouched or undermined.<\/p>\n<p>While the numerical values of GNH index gives us a rough estimate, it is not the exact measure. But still, it makes us aware of what aspects are missing from our lives and therefore, we get well-informed about ourselves. The real conclusion here is that\u00a0<em>life is much beyond financial or tangible gains, it has to do with one&#8217;s sense of well-being.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Life-Skills\">Click here for government certification in Life Skills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As today&#8217;s world strives to gather as much facts and figures for everything, be it NASA&#8217;s recent astronomical accomplishments or a general store owner&#8217;s daily sales, even emotions and feelings have come to be a measurable commodity. How happy can a person be ? 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