For how long? Peaceful can be achieved easily by death, joyful is more tricky. Shortcuts to joy, especially with a bar of “as joyful as the most joyful I’ve ever met”, are pretty short-lived—I guess I’d try drugs or other wirehead-like intense experiences, but I don’t think this is the intent of the question.
If I’ve got 6 figures per month to spend, guaranteed for the life of the target, I think that knowledge goes a long way toward removing a lot of barriers to joy. I’d then focus on triggering joyous feelings, in hopes that the target can learn to repeat it fairly often.
I tend to think of joy/satisfaction as very slow and difficult to change in adults—not quite a set-point, but habits and beliefs created and reinforced in childhood tend to stay. Which means I expect to fail in this goal for the vast majority of random people.
For how long? Peaceful can be achieved easily by death, joyful is more tricky. Shortcuts to joy, especially with a bar of “as joyful as the most joyful I’ve ever met”, are pretty short-lived—I guess I’d try drugs or other wirehead-like intense experiences, but I don’t think this is the intent of the question.
If I’ve got 6 figures per month to spend, guaranteed for the life of the target, I think that knowledge goes a long way toward removing a lot of barriers to joy. I’d then focus on triggering joyous feelings, in hopes that the target can learn to repeat it fairly often.
I tend to think of joy/satisfaction as very slow and difficult to change in adults—not quite a set-point, but habits and beliefs created and reinforced in childhood tend to stay. Which means I expect to fail in this goal for the vast majority of random people.