Become your ideal self

Happiness is the process of becoming your ideal self.

快乐，就是成为理想中的自己的过程。

Completing a marathon makes us happier than eating a chocolate cake. Raising a child makes us happier than beating a video game. 

与吃一块巧克力蛋糕相比，跑完一场马拉松让我们更快乐。与打赢电子游戏相比，养育一个孩子让我们更快乐。

Starting a small business with friends and struggling to make money makes us happier than buying a new computer.

与买一台新电脑相比，和朋友创业并努力挣钱让我们更快乐。

And the funny thing is that all three of the activities above are exceedingly unpleasant and require setting high expectations and potentially failing to always meet them. 

有趣的是，这三件事，都是非常令人不适的事情，它们需要我们设立比较高的预期，而且很难实现。

Yet, they are some of the most meaningful moments and activities of our lives. They involve pain, struggle, even anger and despair, yet once we've done them, we look back and get misty-eyed about them.

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