# A Formula for Happiness

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Arthur C. Brooks]]
- Full Title: A Formula for Happiness
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/a-formula-for-happiness.html

## Highlights
- Along the way, I learned that rewarding work is unbelievably important, and this is emphatically not about money.
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- But scholars like the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman have found that once people reach a little beyond the average middle-class income level, even big financial gains don’t yield much, if any, increases in happiness.
- And according to the General Social Survey, nearly three-quarters of Americans wouldn’t quit their jobs even if a financial windfall enabled them to live in luxury for the rest of their lives.