Finding happiness vs chasing it

• Happiness is a side effect of what subjectively you should persuit.

  • e.g.
    • achieving a goal meaningful enough so that it will let you thrive trough the difficulties of life much easier and longer than simple pleasure

• finding it.

  • probable requisites
    • fulfill the basic needs of the Pyramid of needs - Maslow
    • embracing, knowing and acting based on you Identity
  • We should use Int and Greatness - You’re lucky to focus our mind in what we already got.

• Chasing it

  • trough virtous goals like Eudaimonism
  • trough avoidance of pain and maximizing of pleasure like Hedonism