Comments on: Choose your friends very carefully http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/ Research and discussion on the formation of genius and expert performance Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:53:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: daniel http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-582 daniel Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:17:36 +0000 http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/#comment-582 Thanks, Barry! It's great having friends like you, too! Thanks, Barry! It’s great having friends like you, too!

]]> By: daniel http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-581 daniel Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:16:17 +0000 http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/#comment-581 thanks for your comment, Stephanie, I agree with you. If you can read the article that I posted, you can note that I report the research finding that shows the relationship between happiness, money and friends. We are happier when we have happy friends. In fact, each happy friend that we have increases the chance that we will ourselves be happy by about 9%. The same research study found that increasing your income by $5000pa increased the chance that we ourselves would be happy by about 2%. Without taking into account the diminishing rate of return on additional income (that I think we could expect to observe were this to be tested), having a happy friend will make you more likely to be happy. Specifically what I was attempting to communicate was that having that one happy friend would increase the likelihood of you being happy by 4.5 times more than having an extra $5000 income - ie $22,500. I hope that's made it clearer for you :) thanks for your comment, Stephanie, I agree with you.

If you can read the article that I posted, you can note that I report the research finding that shows the relationship between happiness, money and friends. We are happier when we have happy friends. In fact, each happy friend that we have increases the chance that we will ourselves be happy by about 9%.

The same research study found that increasing your income by $5000pa increased the chance that we ourselves would be happy by about 2%.

Without taking into account the diminishing rate of return on additional income (that I think we could expect to observe were this to be tested), having a happy friend will make you more likely to be happy. Specifically what I was attempting to communicate was that having that one happy friend would increase the likelihood of you being happy by 4.5 times more than having an extra $5000 income – ie $22,500.

I hope that’s made it clearer for you :)

]]> By: Stephanie http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-577 Stephanie Wed, 26 May 2010 07:03:53 +0000 http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/#comment-577 What utter rubbish, some of the financially poorest people I know have the most friends, work that one out genius What utter rubbish, some of the financially poorest people I know have the most friends, work that one out genius

]]> By: Andrew Smith http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-576 Andrew Smith Mon, 24 May 2010 23:46:40 +0000 http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/#comment-576 Christakis has done a lot of research on this - you can see a talk of his on social networks (and how obesity could be contagious) in a talk on TED.com Christakis has done a lot of research on this – you can see a talk of his on social networks (and how obesity could be contagious) in a talk on TED.com

]]> By: Barry Meadows http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-456 Barry Meadows Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:16:22 +0000 http://TheGeniusProject.com/2009/11/choose-your-very-friends-carefully/#comment-456 You are my friend. Please don't stop posting. I love them all. You are my friend. Please don’t stop posting. I love them all.

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