Comments on: WHY WHITE SOX AND CUB FANS AND DANES ARE HAPPY.

By: WHY DO PEOPLE FEAR COMPLIMENTS? | Pater Familias

WHY DO PEOPLE FEAR COMPLIMENTS? | Pater Familias — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:51:40 +0000

[...] author of the Atlantic article, gives the example of the Danish attitude to life which I posted on here (”the Danish are happier than people in other developed nations because they have low [...]

By: Pater Familias » WHY ARE DANES HAPPY? (REVISITED).

Pater Familias » WHY ARE DANES HAPPY? (REVISITED). — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:36:43 +0000

[...] ARE DANES HAPPY? (REVISITED). I posted earlier on research which claimed that Danes are happier than others because they have lower expectations. [...]

By: Mary Jane

Mary Jane — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:28:08 +0000

I am thrilled that Pater Familias is happy.

By: Annalisa

Annalisa — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:06:02 +0000

Wow, Dad, I thought that your low expectations (and low requirements for happiness–see “hedonist with bad taste”) were just a part of your own individual life philosophy. So did you learn this way of thinking from your mother? I guess I never really thought about what Grandma Schaefer’s philosophies on life were. I knew she cared about good manners and working hard, but I never knew what she thought concerning happiness.

I like the phrase “the dismal secret of happiness.”

Nick, I remember well how you and Dad would sometimes argue about Dad’s dreary predictions for the game, the season, the rest of the Bulls’ career. At least you guys could agree on the bad calls though!

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:41:14 +0000

Haha, oh God.

I guess that’s a slap in the face to me. Every time the Bulls would start a game down 2-0, Dad would posit that they would never win another game again. In fact, they might not ever score another point again.