What brings happiness?
In a previous post, I defended the idea that, When properly applied, money can bring happiness.
Returning to the theme of happiness, motivated by what Tony Hsieh (Chief Executive Officer of Zappos) wrote the book “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose“, when he says something like this:
I made a list of times when I was happiest in my life and, I noticed that none of them involved money…happiness is closely linked to enjoy life…I felt good at creating, build and do things that they felt passion.
In addition to this confession by someone like Tony who sold 2 companies for large sums of money *, other event leads me to assume that achieving happiness is not closely linked to how much money we are able to amass, but to what we can do with it, is commitment Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg and more about 40 American billionaire, signed.
Him, undertake to donate more than half their fortunes for the implementation of charitable projects, to help create a better world.
If so, to help solve the major problems of humanity brings happiness, why wait as long as some of the signatories hoped to go in search of happiness?
* In 1998 LinkExchange to Microsoft for 265 million dollars and, in 2009 Zappos to Amazon by 1,2 billion dollars.
