nakashima001 “I want to contribute more to society,” I replied to a student who said.

“Think about what makes you happy. So the vision of social contribution is synonymous with social desire for approval? It does not necessarily achieve happiness. If you give the axis of happiness to an outside party, it is unstable. Rather, happiness is infectious if the social group repudiates it.”

hogaraka33 This is a symptom that affects a certain number of people during the job hunting season, and I have had it myself. If you ask them to analyze themselves, they will either say that they want to extend the research they are currently doing or that they want to be of help to others. The more serious they are, the more likely they are to do so.

If you give the axis of happiness to an external party, it will be unstable. - [Inherent in the evaluation axis - extrinsic motivation

relevance - There is self-sacrificing altruism and self-serving altruism.


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