What is happiness?

Page 24. What is happiness? I started by simply documenting every instant when I felt happy I called at my happy list. Page 26 the happiness equation, happiness, greater, or equal to the perception of the events in your life minus your expectations of how life should behave.

— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · Solve for Happy, Engineer your Path to Joy. By Mo Gawdat

In the book

And it is deeply personal: you have to define what it means to you, because at its deepest level happiness is learning to honor your truest self, and most people are miserable precisely when they're out of touch with who they really are. There's even a rough equation for it: your happiness tends to equal your perception of the events in your life minus your expectations of how life should have gone. Lower the second number and the first one rises. […] Stop chasing it head-on. Happiness ensues from a life well lived; aim at meaning and let joy be the byproduct. Lower the second number. Your happiness rises as the gap between your perception and your expectations narrows. Buy experiences, schedule joy. Spend on moments, not objects; block weekly time for your top five sources of happiness. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)

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