What is happiness? Popper answered this question the best in his answer to what is the meaning of life. "All life is problem solving" Problem in the Popperian sense is not always something bad. Problem can be any unsolved thing that you are working on and the definition is not limited to science, art etc. Raising your kids well is also a problem in this sense, and so is trying to get better at dodgeball. Working on a problem is a process of knowledge creation. So in a sense, life is a process of knowledge creation. What is a good life then? what is a happy life? It is a life where the problems you are working on, the knowledge that you are creating, are interesting to YOU. This is the key here - YOU find these problems interesting and are free of coercion in choosing these problems. This is easier said than done. I wrote about it in an earlier blog post , but I believe most misery (excluding misery due to physical pain/limitations, or psychological issues that are real e.g. ...
At the end of a long day filled with stress and turmoil the man heard his heart say why all this endless toil You work so hard from dawn to dusk maybe let down your guard you ain't Elon Musk Work is a cope of the restless of mind but there is still hope you can choose to be kind So be kind to yourself man and your inner child within really do whatever you can lest the child goes Slytherin Stop running from the true you dreams unchased is a crime life gives chances a few my friend, now is the time