Was it Lil' Kim who rapped the lyrics "Money power respect... It's the key to life"? Turns out, she was only partly right. New research suggests happiness has a lot more to do with respect than it does with money,
Medical News Today reports.
In a series of studies, psychological scientist Cameron Anderson of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, found that:
1) Respect and admiration, but not socioeconomic status, predicted students' social well-being. 2) The relationship between respect/admiration and well-being was partly due to the sense of power and social acceptance that the students felt in their personal relationships. And 3) Changes in respect/admiration corresponded to changes in MBA students' well-being. And respect/admiration predicted well-being more strongly than socioeconomic status.
"I was surprised at how fluid these effects were -- if someone's [social] standing in their local ladder went up or down, so did their happiness, even over the course of 9 months," said Anderson. What makes you happier: money or respect?
10 years later he was the best man at my wedding and I was his best man. He got a nice job and I got a free beer!
I prefere respect.
The only good thing about money is the fact that it's a way to survive, i guess. But it's often respect and Others caring nature that helps us get out of tough situations that money can't get us out of, or money caused in the first place.
Either way, they are both EARNED, not handed out - rather that's how it should be.
Problem, "homeless" guy begging on street corner?
earning it the hard way........
Romney's contributors
Talk about brainwashed masses.. you lead the group.
When it comes to self-respect, hpwever, I cannot be bought for any price.