Talk:Happiness

Request for Assistance
I feel a bit pretentious telling others how to be happy when I still haven't graduated high school. Anyone with a psychology or sociology degree would be greatly appreciated. Hoogli (talk) 20:39, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

What pronoun should be used?
For example, should we write, "One must work hard to attain happiness," or "You must work hard to attain happiness"? Whichever way is decided, we should be consistent. Hoogli (talk) 01:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I must agree that u might be still be missing some experience about life and happiness to tell others how to get happy. And I presume every body would be happy if human lifetime and intelligence would not be too limited for that.


 * So instead writing how to make others others happy it might be better idea to write how to make your self happy.


 * Thus I propose pronoun "I". Example "I have no idea what pronoun is and that's make me happy."


 * If might be good idea to ask happy people to help you to write how they got happy. Old people tend to have experience of different life phases and life as whole, so they might be good source of some overall ideas of being happy trough your live.


 * My top 3 ways to get happy are
 * Just being happy, not worrying and taking life lightly.
 * Doing well in sports (etc. task) that I like. ( Risky as can failure can cause unhappiness )
 * Knowing that I have everything I need to be happy. ( Risky as it is easy to think that I need something that others have or want to have )
 * —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.112.184.41 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The problem with the first person pronoun is that it referrs to the author and not the general case. As Wikibooks is a collaborative project, this would be cumbersome. Once could imagine a book on the collection of personal anecdotes, but this book has a different approach.
 * Remarkably, people don't always seem to be able to predict or explain what makes people happy. Happy people might attribute their happiness to a cause which has served others poorly so only asking those who've been served well by the method will not reveal how well it works. --Swift (talk) 02:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Protect happiness book
This book is very important. There are three bothering signs, poluting it. Could I just remove them? The most absurd one is "to merge with Guide to Success and Fulfillment". I believe editors should avoid merging all books in one huge book, because it weakens the book personality and importance. Variety is good. Besides: Happiness and Success are two different topics. Ricardoramalho (talk) 12:19, 11 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Calling the merger tag absurd and saying that the tags are "poluting" the page is rather harsh langugage. These were put up on good faith in the interest of improving both books.
 * I do, however, agree that these books are valuable as they take different approaches and have somewhat different scope. I've removed the merger tag from these books and left the link as a related wikibook.
 * The other tags are useful and I think they should stay. --Swift (talk) 02:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)