{"id":554,"date":"2013-09-03T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2013-09-03T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:17:00","slug":"happiness-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/happiness-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my limited perception of the world, I find it interesting. The workers are always looking up at their boss thinking, man, he&#8217;s made it. The boss is looking at his boss, and concluding the same thing. For the most part, unless you&#8217;re at the very top of the chain, you&#8217;re still looking up. Even at the top, you might be looking towards the past for inspiration, comparing yourself to historic figures.<\/p>\n<p>It might sound obvious, but if you were to compare yourself to the people less fortunate than you, you are much better off, but if you compare yourself to a person ahead of you, you feel far behind.<\/p>\n<p>I just think it&#8217;s important to realize that as long as your basic needs are covered, everything else is just a plus. It&#8217;s important to be content with what you have, but desire upward mobility simply for the sake as a challenge to yourself. It&#8217;s not a goal you must met, but a goal you can entertain yourself with. Much like playing a game, that you may or may not win. Sometimes, it&#8217;s not winning that&#8217;s important, it&#8217;s the experience of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my limited perception of the world, I find it interesting. The workers are always looking up at their boss thinking, man, he&#8217;s made it. The boss is looking at his boss, and concluding the same thing. For the most part, unless you&#8217;re at the very top of the chain, you&#8217;re still looking up. Even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/happiness-ladder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happiness Ladder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}