How to Maximize Your Happiness

Angela Greene: What is the optimal design, then, of a good life? She says we don't evaluate prospects or things in our lives in terms of absolute values. That's because diminishing sensitivity means for you to get that extra happiness benefit from the extra million in the two million, you would have wanted to go back to base line first. "You want one million and then come back a couple months later and get another million," she says.