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According to William James' formula, my self-esteem, and as we know self-esteem and happiness are very highly co-related and related.
根據威廉姆·詹姆斯的公式，我的自尊，而我們都知道自尊和快樂是緊密相關的
My self-esteem, my happiness level according to this formula is a half.
我的自尊，我的快樂水平根據這個公式便只有一半
On the other hand, let's say my pretensions, my expectation is to make 1.5 thousand dollars a month and in fact I make 1.5 thousand dollars a month.
另一方面，假設我的抱負，我的期望是一個月掙1500美元而事實上我一個月掙了1500美元
According to this formula, my self-esteem, my happiness level is 1.
根據這個公式，我的自尊，我的快樂水平是1
So here even though I'm making less, again I'm using a numeric example here, you can think about other examples.
盡管我掙的更少了，我這里舉的是數字化的例子，你們可以想想其他例子
Even though I'm actually making less here, my self-esteem and my happiness are higher.
盡管我實際上掙得少了，我的自尊和我的快樂程度卻變高了
So lower you expectations. Not so.
所以要降低你的期望。其實不盡然
What was found in the last 35 years of research is that this formula is actually wrong.
過去35年的研究發現這個公式實際上是錯的
That's not the case.
情況不是這樣的
Here is how it actually works.
這才是實際的情況
Let's say we have a graph. And this is time.
讓我們畫一張圖，橫坐標是時間
And here is my self esteem levels and happiness levels.
縱坐標是我的自尊水平和快樂水平
And let's at start off around my base level which is here.
讓我們從我的基礎水平開始，就在這里
