Happiness

Happiness depends upon ourselves -Aristotle

The importance of the quest for true happiness and well-being is a commonality most individuals on this vast earth share. However, the problem with such a task lie in the ambiguous nature of the words, every person has their own definition of what happiness and well-being are as well as how to achieve it. Social Psychologists have come to believe that well-being and happiness are purely states of mind which heavily depend upon the individual ( Myers 23).
In David Myers book, The Pursuit of Happiness, he addresses the question of just how happy do people believe themselves to be? If judging from a national survey, Myers sites, it seems that most people believe themselves to be “pretty happy” with their current state in life (Myers 25). However, Myer has explained these individuals answers by stating that such beliefs may be a product
of individuals holding two biases. The first of which is the tendency...