Norocul aka Luck by Ion Valjan made me think of the psychology classic Stumbling on Happiness by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert

 

Norocul aka Luck by Ion Valjan made me think of the psychology classic Stumbling on Happiness by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert

 

 

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9 out of 10

 

Stumbling on Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert is a glorious chef d’oeuvre which explains the myths of happiness, and the Hedonic Adaptation phenomenon: we assume that we would be happy, if only this thing would happen

 

Among the most common dreams are: moving to California, or an island in the Caribbean, or Pacific, but tests made with those who did change and lived in those places showed that they appreciated the palm trees, wonderful nature, and other traits, but then got used with those and started seeing the negative

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-myths-of-happiness-by-sonja.html The Myths of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky explains further, Hedonic Adaptation means that we get used with almost everything, except the loss of somebody dear, the job, also loud noises are more difficult to get used with

 

in Norocul we have this doctor, played by the majestic George Constantin, who traverses some difficult period, clients lost faith, he may have to close his office, this brought to mind the fact that we are experiencing some traumas here, to the point where I was thinking to get on onlyfans, with my trick of the lotus headstand

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html in order to make some money, maybe a million dollars, I kept asking for suggestions, with this link above, and got nothing so far, even Claude was asked and he/it/she said that I should be on TikTok, then get a Yoga mats company to pay for some ads

 

the doctor in the play has a patient, who says he is millions of years old, and after we think he is crazy (and maybe he is) we find that he is in fact Norocul aka Luck, and presto, there is a queue of patients waiting to pay for treatment, everything changed, his mother wins the big lottery ticket, but that does not mean so much

positive Psychology https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/positivity-by-barbara-fredrickson-life.html studies have looked at what happens with big wins at lottery, more than one million dollars, and indeed, for some months, the lucky ones see a higher life satisfaction, but after that, they return to their base level of happiness

 

ergo, The Hedonic Adaptation – should I call it syndrome? – effect is confirmed again, only we have Marcus Aurelius https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/meditations-by-marcus-aurelius-10-out.html emperor of Rome and one of the quintessential Stoics stating that ‘the only wealth that you will keep forever is the one you have given away’

 

my self-promotion, at the end:

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