Dialectic Two-Step – Have Smartphones Made Us Happier?

Dialectic Two-Step  is an ongoing series of my thoughts on questions that come my way.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. - Octavio Paz  

Have Smartphones and Social Media Made People Happier?

I would argue that if we look for happiness in smartphones, we’re doing it wrong. Happiness – a temporary thing – can come in two ways:

The world lines up with our preferences (we get what we want or we avoid what we don’t want).  How often does this happen?We line up with the way the world is (we acknowledge that things don’t always work out the way we want and recognize that we can have a meaningful life if we avoid wallowing in disappointment)Get Each Week's Dialectic Two Step in your email box

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