You’d like to make a career change but you can’t because you’ve got the ‘golden handcuffs’ on and can’t afford to take a pay cut. The latest Range Rover comes out and you feel you have to have it. This can become a vicious circle as the ‘things you own start to own you’. Put another way, higher earners tend to have higher costs. If you measure happiness financially, you’re likely to work hard to climb the corporate ladder or grow your business.Īs your income climbs, it can be easy to adjust your lifestyle in line with your income. The Hedonic Treadmill and ‘Financial Freedom’įor example. Knowing the flawed thinking patterns you can get into that drive the wrong sort of behaviour. It’s worth reflecting on them from time to time to see which ones you are ‘at risk of’ and which ones might be impacting your mood.
These are some of the reasons that people become unhappy.
Which comparison leaves you feeling happier?Īnna Vital puts together some brilliant infographics but this has to be one of my favourites. It’s about the stories you tell yourself.įor instance, do you compare yourself to the neighbour with the new Range Rover or the person with the terminally ill child? It is about you and how you perceive the events in your life. Put another way, people who were miserable before they won the lottery, were still miserable after they’d won it! When compared with a control group, the study found that the event (winning the lottery/the accident) had a short-term impact on the individual’s happiness but after a period of time, most people’s happiness level regressed to where they were before the event. The accident victims hadn’t suffered just minor injuries, they’d suffered life changing injuries leaving them paralysed. In 1978 a study was done by Brickman, Coates and Janoff-Bulman which compared ‘lottery winners and accident victims’. If my boss wasn’t so awful, I’d enjoy my job. We like to think that happiness is driven by external stimuli. Other people have a lower set-point and are constantly miserable. The majority sit somewhere in between. They are grateful for what they have and they don’t complain very often.
Some people have a cheery outlook on life. The basis of the theory is that we all have a ‘set level of happiness’. This article will briefly explain the concept and challenge you to think if and how it applies to you. It was further developed by Michael Eysenck who wrote about the Hedonic Treadmill. The phrase Hedonic adaption was first coined Brickmann and Campbell’s essay, ‘Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society’ (1971). They give us something to reflect upon and challenge our own behaviour against. Models can be helpful in shaping our thinking. Consider what is working, what isn’t and what they want to do differently. So I think it’s helpful for leaders to consider their own behaviour.
Do the leaders support each other to achieve a common goal or do they work in silos? What are they measured on? This matters because silos are created at the top of organisations.Īn organisation’s culture and its performance are a reflection of the cumulative leadership behaviours in that organisation.Do they lose their tempers when things go wrong? Expect this to be replicated throughout the organisation.Are your leaders consistently late? Then don’t expect people to turn up to meetings on time.It is the behaviour that is demonstrated by the leadership and the behaviour that they tolerate amongst their people that creates the organisation’s culture. It is about what you do every single day. What you say matters but if it is undermined by your behaviour it becomes irrelevant. This is why I am a strong believer in the concept of leadership by example. One of the things that makes leadership such a tricky subject is that it is all about behaviour.
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