关于幸福的8个传说 你都信吗？

Science says: What your friends, family members, and colleagues make relative to your salary seems to affect your happiness more than what you make, no matter how much it is. For example. Lyubomirsky describes one study that found people prefer to live in a world where they make $50,000 and others earn $25,000 than in one where their annual salary is $100,000, but others make $200,000.
科学表明：你的朋友，家庭成员以及同事的薪资似乎比你自己的薪资更加影响你的幸福度哦，这与金钱多少无关。比如Lyubomirsky描述了一个研究发现，人们都喜欢活在一个自己赚5万其他人赚2万5，而不是自己赚1万其他人赚2万的世界里。

Boost your bliss: One way to “buy” happiness is to use money to buy another limited resource: time. Paying people to do time-consuming chores (paint the house, fix the plumbing) allows you to spend your time doing other things that make you happy, such as spending time with your family, volunteering, and enjoying a show.
提升幸福度：“买”来幸福的一个方法就是拿钱去买无价之宝：时间。花钱请人来做一些费时间的琐事（粉刷屋子，修理水管），你就大可利用这些时间做别的事情来让自己开心起来，比如和家人在一起，做一些志愿者工作或是欣赏一次演出。

Myth: A bigger house will boost your happiness.
传说：大房子能提升幸福感

Science says: If that mega-square foot home means you have to take out a barely affordable mortgage, it may not give as much pleasure as you’d hope. Research shows that eliminating negative experiences (like, worry associated with debt) makes you three to five times more happy than creating a positive experience (like, splurging on something). According to Lyubomirsky, “pleasure from the house can’t come close to matching the pain and worry of eking out monthly mortgage payments.”
科学表明：如果那种大的房子意味着你需要贷款，也许就不能给你所希望的那么多幸福感了。然而，研究发现消除消极（比如担心还贷）会让你比乱花钱这样的事情多出三到五倍的幸福感哦。Lyubomirsky说：“房子所带来的满足感无法弥补每月超支消费的痛苦和担心。”

Boost your bliss: Research increasingly shows that experiences, not things, make us happy. And “it appears that the happiest people are those who are most skilled at wringing experiences out of everything in which they invest their money, whether it’s a guitar, a plane ticket, a camera, cake decorating lessons, or running shoes.” You’ll be happier with your material possessions when you make fun memories out of them—a road trip in a new car, a family party on your new deck.
提升幸福感：多数研究发现，是经历而非事件真正让我们开心。“似乎最开心的那些人就是最擅长把花钱干了什么都写出来的人，无论是买了把吉他，机票，相机，蛋糕课程还是跑步鞋。”一旦这些给你带来了快乐的回忆，那就能让你无比幸福了-比如开着新车旅行，或是在新的游艇上家庭聚会。