**Group experiments show that people "think" they'll have enough when they name 50% more, regardless of their earnings.** In seminars held by Vicki Robin and her late co-author Joe Dominguez, audience members of all levels of income were asked to rate their happiness on a scale from 1 to 5. Then they were asked what level of income they thought would be [[Enough is Hard to Recognize|enough]] to make them happy. They consistently said they would be happy if they had 50% more than they currently did... at every level. Even those who made 50% more than others in the audience didn’t change their reported happiness in any significant way. This shows, beyond a basic threshold, ==there is no [[correlation]] between happiness and income==. The average rating for everyone, by the way, was ~2.6 - 2.8. Not even the 3 that would be an average from a normal distribution. > [!tldr] 🔑 You will never achieve "more", but you can achieve [[Enough Money]]. There's a similar phenomenon for *productivity* - see [[Feeling "On Top" of Life]]. **** # More ## Source - [[Thinking Fast and Slow]] - [[Your Money or Your Life]] ## Related - [[Enough is Hard to Recognize]] - [[Enough Money]]