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Business plan for a happier life (bis)

The Life-as-Startup Guide: Building Your Happiness Business Plan

TL;DR

Your life is a startup, and you're the founder. Success means optimizing for meaningful metrics (relationships, satisfaction, purpose) not just financial ones. This guide provides a structured approach to self-management, career development, and relationship building based on behavioral science.


Part 1: Foundation - Managing Yourself as CEO

The Burnout Diagnostic

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Business plan for a happier life

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Bis version

The Happiness Architecture: A Systems Approach to Life Design

Core Premise: The Misallocation Problem

Most people fail at happiness not because they lack resources, but because they're optimizing for the wrong metrics. Research shows that after $75,000/year (adjusted for cost of living), additional income correlates weakly with life satisfaction. Yet people sacrifice relationships, health, and purpose chasing marginal financial gains.


import pandas as pd
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.decomposition import PCA
class Pipeline:
def __init__(self, data_path):
self.data_path = data_path
self.data = None
self.scaled_data = None
self.pca_data = None