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Success - Expectations, usually. Success / Expectations would imply that if you have negative expectations and positive success, you'd still have negative happiness, which doesn't seem true.



Actually, if you have such negative expectations, you might be pessimistic enough that even success wouldn't make you happy.

But for other people, yeah, things coming out that much better than expected would be a good thing.




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