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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Religious,philosophica and Psychological Foundations of Happiness Section (3). Psychological Foundations of Happiness 3-1. Cognition of the world Happiness depends on a considerable extent on how we think about the world, as well as our emotional responses. Someone who can think straight and solve real life problems is better equipped to be happy.

Wisdom means being able to understand and deal with the challenges, both great and small, that we encounter in everyday life. Wise people can identify the problem and then work out how to resolve it in a practical way. Wise people also recognize the inherent uncertainties of life, appreciate the limits of their own knowledge, and cope well with ambiguity (Martin, 2006, PP. 66- 67). There is no objective way to tell you if you have had a good life, a good day, or a good hour.

Your life is a success based only upon your judgment. A study was done recently in which people on opposite sides of an issue where given the same newspaper article to read. Those people were asked to read the article carefully and to offer their reaction. On average, people said they thought the article was biased against their own position. That is, people on both sides of the issue thought the exact same article was biased against their side.

The article could not possibly have been biased against both sides of the issue. Obviously, it was not the content of the article that drove the reaction, but the perspective of the readers. Life events have the same effect. The same event can be seen positively, or it can be seen negatively. It depends upon your perspective.

(Niven, 2000) Knowing whether some ones have recently suffered a personal setback or personal triumph is not as good a predictor of how satisfied they are with their lives as knowing how they perceive the causes and consequences of those events. (Staats, Armstrong-Stassen, and Partillo1995; cited in Niven, 2000) What is the shape of the World? What condition is it in?

Scientists, philosophers, and kings could offer a never-ending debate on the question, but there is no real grade for the world apart from the one you assign it. (Niven, 2000) People who have experienced similar life events can wind up with nearly opposite perceptions of life satisfaction.