Apropos of some of the comments, there is a growing literature on positive psychology, which instead of training focus upon what’s amiss, aims to move beyond “psychic entropy” (a cognate concept of existential angst?)
As to happiness, the ancient tao philosopher Chuang-tzu wrote to the effect that a superior means of finding happiness is to stop looking for it. What he actually said is, of course, open to analytic interpetation or outright rejection on any number of grounds, but its spirit seems to jibe with the quote above attributed to Albert Einstein. Getting enthusiastic about something (hopefully something moral and constructive) would be the opposite of lapsing into psychic entropy.
Apropos of some of the comments, there is a growing literature on positive psychology, which instead of training focus upon what’s amiss, aims to move beyond “psychic entropy” (a cognate concept of existential angst?)
As to happiness, the ancient tao philosopher Chuang-tzu wrote to the effect that a superior means of finding happiness is to stop looking for it. What he actually said is, of course, open to analytic interpetation or outright rejection on any number of grounds, but its spirit seems to jibe with the quote above attributed to Albert Einstein. Getting enthusiastic about something (hopefully something moral and constructive) would be the opposite of lapsing into psychic entropy.