Nur’s Reviews > Happiness: Lessons from a New Science > Status Update
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"Society takes enormous trouble over who is allowed to adopt adopt a child, but none about who is allowed to produce one. This has led the psychologist David Lykken to suggest that parents should have to get a licence before child-bearing, or otherwise risk the danger that their child will be taken away for adoption."
David Lykken piensa como yo.
— Apr 24, 2022 04:55AM
David Lykken piensa como yo.
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Nur’s Previous Updates
Nur
is on page 164 of 320
"We have been trained too long to strive and not to enjoy".
— Apr 22, 2022 09:21AM
Nur
is on page 87 of 320
"Chaos on the screen tends to desensitise - to make people more willing to engage in violence themselves and in illicit sex. At the same time wealth and beauty create discontent with what people have - an itch to earn or steal more wealth, or to find a more beautiful partner."
— Jan 10, 2022 04:50AM
Nur
is on page 73 of 320
"What matters is not what life brings to you, but what you bring to life"
— Jan 09, 2022 04:07AM
Nur
is on page 47 of 320
"So one secret of happiness is to ignore comparisons with people who are more successful than you are: always compare downwards, not upwards."
— Dec 20, 2021 06:30AM
Nur
is on page 44 of 320
"For income is much more than a means to buy things. We also use our income, compared to others', as a measure of how we are valued and (if we are not careful) a measure of how we value ourselves."
— Dec 15, 2021 12:49AM
