Myth: A bigger salary makes you happier.

传说：薪资越高越幸福

Science says: What your friends, family members, and colleagues make relative to your salary seems to affect your happiness more than what you make, no matter how much it is. For example. Lyubomirsky describes one study that found people prefer to live in a world where they make $50,000 and others earn $25,000 than in one where their annual salary is $100,000, but others make $200,000.

科学表明：你的朋友，家庭成员以及同事的薪资似乎比你自己的薪资更加影响你的幸福度哦，这与金钱多少无关。比如Lyubomirsky描述了一个研究发现，人们都喜欢活在一个自己赚5万其他人赚2万5，而不是自己赚1万其他人赚2万的世界里。

Boost your bliss: One way to “buy” happiness is to use money to buy another limited resource: time. Paying people to do time-consuming chores (paint the house, fix the plumbing) allows you to spend your time doing other things that make you happy, such as spending time with your family, volunteering, and enjoying a show.

提升幸福度：“买”来幸福的一个方法就是拿钱去买无价之宝：时间。花钱请人来做一些费时间的琐事（粉刷屋子，修理水管），你就大可利用这些时间做别的事情来让自己开心起来，比如和家人在一起，做一些志愿者工作或是欣赏一次演出。