Study: People With a Lot of Self-Control Are Happier

The Atlantic ^ | JUL 1 2013 | LINDSAY ABRAMS

[neverdem]

Link to abstract: Yes, But Are They Happy? Effects of Trait Self-Control on Affective Well-Being and Life Satisfaction

[Alex Murphy]

Improbably enough, people who are better able to resist impulses report being more satisfied with their lives.

Those people used to be called Puritans.

[pax_et_bonum]

Improbably enough, people who are better able to resist impulses report being more satisfied with their lives.
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“Improbably enough”?

Not improbable at all.

[lurk]

Who paid for this redundant study?

[BigCinBigD]

I have more self control than anyone I’ve ever known or heard of. But I’m not happy. Stupid study.

[BunnySlippers]

Not Alec Baldwin [ex-Twitter user].

[Revolting cat!]

I was going to post a comment, but I do have more self control, so never mind...

[pax_et_bonum]

But you did post a comment.

[Secret Agent Man]

well they stop themselves from doing impulsive stupid things others don’t. saves them from crimes and jail, and even destroying business and personal relationships over things that aren’t worth it.

[Secret Agent Man]

if you didn’t have self control you could easily today wind up in jail, or in court and being sued. less freedom less money, more stress, you’d be far, far less happy than you are now.

[Secret Agent Man]

explains the black community and their doj crime stats.

[max americana]

“Who paid for this redundant study?”

The Bud Light Institute

[martin_fierro]

People With a Lot of Self-Control Are Happier

"Wish you'd have told me that 20 tattoos and several piercings ago."

[jmacusa]

“Pins and needles, needles and pins. A happy man is a man who grins’’.

[jmacusa]

This is what happens when cousins marry.

[UCANSEE2]

Who paid for this redundant study?

Go into the bathroom, look in the mirror.

[Veto!]

Agree, where are these studies and writers coming from? Why would people without self-control be considered happy?

Addicts
Over eaters
Over spenders
Etcetcetc?

It’s a remarkable comment on our culture to think that lack of control might make you happy. But guess what? ADVERTISERS promote that all the time in very cute and compelling ways: “Bet you can’t eat just one.”

[mylife]

There is a difference between no plan and improvisation.

Nektar 1972 recorded live in studio to two track, no dubs, just raw improv

Have a plan, Adapt, Improvise, Overcome

[mylife]

[5thGenTexan]

OMG. What must life be like during cold & flu season?