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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.
根据威廉姆·詹姆斯的公式，我的自尊，而我们都知道自尊和快乐是紧密相关的
My self-esteem, my happiness level according to this formula is a half.
我的自尊，我的快乐水平根据这个公式便只有一半
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，假设我的抱负，我的期望是一个月挣1500美元而事实上我一个月挣了1500美元
According to this formula, my self-esteem, my happiness level is 1.
根据这个公式，我的自尊，我的快乐水平是1
So here even though I'm making less, again I'm using a numeric example here, you can think about other examples.
尽管我挣的更少了，我这里举的是数字化的例子，你们可以想想其他例子
Even though I'm actually making less here, my self-esteem and my happiness are higher.
尽管我实际上挣得少了，我的自尊和我的快乐程度却变高了
So lower you expectations. Not so.
所以要降低你的期望。其实不尽然
What was found in the last 35 years of research is that this formula is actually wrong.
过去35年的研究发现这个公式实际上是错的
That's not the case.
情况不是这样的
Here is how it actually works.
这才是实际的情况
Let's say we have a graph. And this is time.
让我们画一张图，横坐标是时间
And here is my self esteem levels and happiness levels.
纵坐标是我的自尊水平和快乐水平
And let's at start off around my base level which is here.
让我们从我的基础水平开始，就在这里
