Hunting for Happiness
Searching for happiness in an e-commerce website returns a never-ending series of books with views from businessmen, journalists, lawyers, academics, and monks. Many of them have been #1 bestsellers and then dropped into the long tail of the the cavernous warehouses waiting for someone to rediscover them. People not only want to read about finding happiness, they want to hear about it too - just search for Happiness on Spotify podcasts. The fact that every few months a new tome or podcast appears claiming to have the recipe for happiness, shows that each of the prior trailblazers have only addressed a small portion of the hunt for happiness, It seems that we are blindfolded, in the dark and searching for a object that we have not idea how it looks. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his seminal book, Flow: The Psychology of Happiness says: “I shall argue that the primary reason it is so difficult to achieve happiness centers on the fact that, contrary to the myths manki...