Happiness is Learned

Happiness is a highly peronsal skill that can be learned, just like fitness or nutrition.

Happiness is an evolving thing, it’s meaning changes throughout our lives and is different for everyone. To Naval happiness is what is there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life.

When you remove that sense of something missing, what you are left with is a neutral state. This is the existance that little children live. Small children on balance are quite happy because they are really immersed in the environment and the moment, without any thought of how it should be given their personal preferences and desires.

Therefore happiness is not about positive or the absense of negative thoughts. It’s not about good or evil, it’s about the absense of desires.

Nature knows no concept of happiness or unhappiness. It follows unbroken mathematical laws and a series of cause and effect from the Big Bang to now.

Everything is perfect exactly the way it is. It is only in our particular minds we are unhappy, and things are perfect or imperfect because of what we desire.

The world just reflects your own feelings back at you.

You can very slowly but steadily and methodically improve your happiness baseline, just like you can improve your fitness.