Friday, September 24, 2010

Healthy enough is perfect health; happy enough is perfect happiness.

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  1. What is enough, though? Do we define it?

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  2. If we can achieve moderation, then it's a perfect life.

    Hope you have a nice weekend. :)

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  3. Sounds good to me - any more is asking for trouble.

    By the way, this sounds like the {more wordy} definition of satisficing that you can find in WIKIPEDIA

    Satisficing, a "handy blended word combining satisfy with suffice", is a decision-making strategy that attempts to meet criteria for adequacy, rather than to identify an optimal solution.

    A satisficing strategy may often be (near) optimal if the costs of the decision-making process itself, such as the cost of obtaining complete information, are considered in the outcome calculus.

    The word satisfice was coined by Herbert Simon in 1956. He pointed out that human beings lack the cognitive resources to maximize: we usually do not know the relevant probabilities of outcomes, we can rarely evaluate all outcomes with sufficient precision, and our memories are weak and unreliable. A more realistic approach to rationality takes into account these limitations: This is called bounded rationality.

    Some consequentialist theories in moral philosophy use the concept of satisficing in the same sense, though most call for optimization instead.

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  4. Contentment is, in and of itself, a great gain.

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  5. It's the knowing that's perfection, I think.

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  6. Health and happiness are enough. :)

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  7. The problem is no one says its enough... at least for happiness.
    To be content is probably the first step to happiness

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  8. With our lives being bombarded by images of "perfection" and "true happiness" it's hard to realize that being content is a great place to be.

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  9. Always love my visits here...keep writing Marty:)

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  10. Enough is never enough. You can never reach perfection, so you'll never have enough. That's my interpretation anyway ;p

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  11. Exactly--don't look at the half empty glass--appreciate the half full one!

    Take care,

    Melinda(ville)

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