H: Your overall happiness.
F: Time and attention from your friends.
P: Your personal growth and satisfaction.
S: Social dynamics and mutual respect in friendships.

H = k₁ ⋅ ln(F) + k₂ ⋅ P − k₃ ⋅ J

ln(F): The logarithmic function indicates diminishing returns—the more time/attention you receive, the less additional happiness it brings.
P: Personal growth adds linearly to happiness.
J: Jealousy subtracts from happiness because it strains relationships and undermines personal well-being.
k₁, k₂, k₃: Constants that balance the weight of each factor.

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Importance of Friends' Attention: How much you care about your friends' attention.
Multiplied by...
Diminishing Returns: The idea that a little attention feels great, but demanding more and more brings less happiness each time.

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Importance of Personal Growth: How much value you put on your own growth and self-improvement.
Multiplied by...
Personal Growth: The more effort you put into giving yourself "you-time," understanding yourself and being unbothered by the stress of trying to fit someone's perfect image, which directly adds to your happiness.

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The negative impact of Jealousy: How badly jealousy ruins your happiness.
Multiplied by...
The Jealousy: The actual feelings of envy or resentment you experience, which subtract from the happiness you'd otherwise feel.

The influence of jealousy overpowering personal growth + diminishing returns depends on the weights in the equation (k₁, k₂, k₃).
The amount of effort you put into your personal growth develops and strengthens your ability to actively work and manage jealousy. Its impact can shrink over time.

Let's say you were to rate the importance and need of your friends' attention, how well you understand the importance of your personal growth, and how jealous you are momentarily on a 0–10 scale, to make it realistic:

Importance of Friends' Attention (k₁) = 3
Diminishing Returns from Friends' Attention (F) = 10 (moderate amount of attention)
Importance of Personal Growth (k₂) = 5
Personal Growth (P) = 8 (you're working on yourself)
Negative Impact of Jealousy (k₃) = 7
Jealousy (J) = 9 (you're feeling very jealous)

Now to plug it in:

Happiness = (3 ⋅ ln(10)) + (5 ⋅ 8) − (7 ⋅ 9)

Friends' Attention: 3 ⋅ ln(10) = 3 ⋅ 2.3 = 6.9
Personal Growth: 5 ⋅ 8 = 40
Jealousy: 7 ⋅ 9 = 63

Final Happiness = 6.9 + 40 − 63 = −16.1

Total Happiness = −16.1 (your happiness is in the negatives.)

Even though personal growth and friends' attention added to happiness, jealousy was so high that it completely overpowered them, leaving happiness in the negative. The goal is to reduce or lower jealousy (J) by increasing personal growth (P) to bring the happiness back to a positive number.

Attempt 594 Happiness = (4 ⋅ ln(2)) + (7 ⋅ 2) − (5 ⋅ 9)

Friends' Attention: 4 ⋅ ln(2) ≈ 4 ⋅ 0.69 = 2.76
Personal Growth: 7 ⋅ 2 = 14
Jealousy: 5 ⋅ 9 = 45

Final Happiness = 2.76 + 14 − 45 = −28.24

Total Happiness = −28.24 (your happiness is in the negatives.)

// GET IT TOGETHER, PIM.