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The reality we manage to get into our heads is largely that reality which is abstracted through our symbol systems.
Anon

 

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Australian General Semantics Society Inc.

First National Conference

27-29 August 2010

Melbourne

"The AGS Happiness Poll 2010 "

by Robert



Pursuant to David "Happiness Poll" and Robert's "Sense of Purpose" studies, we conducted a little in-house poll of Conference Participants' attitudes to "What do you most value as a contributor to Happiness?"



Integrity of the voting process was protected by application of the
AGS Patented Donkey-Vote Detector.

The "Rank" below was aggregated over all the Conference participants.

Happiness Component
Rank
Wonderful relationships - a Soulmate
1
Mental health
2
Happy and successful family life
3
Good friends
4
Physical wellbeing: looking, feeling good
5
Sense of fulfilling an important destiny
6
Satisfying and rewarding occupation
7
Feeling valued andfulfilled in commu
8
Able to choose how I spend my time
9
Wealth to support beneficial projects
10
Living in a "nice" environment
11
Spiritual fulfilment
12
Wealth to demonstrate social kudos
13
Maintenance of eternal youth
14
Gender issues
15
Nifty gadgets - nice phone & car
16

The implications of these findings will be examined
in future Seminar proceedings.

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