Notes on happiness

Things you do for their own sake are called atellic

They are what life is about and is what makes you happy

They provide the value to you and only you in the purist sense and is what makes you happy

They may accidentally make others happy too but if you started considering that and optimizing for that it stopped being atellic and stop being the thing make you happy.

The highest form of living is philosophical contemplation is talking about these activities.

Our desire change, so these activity might change too.

Do what make you happy, or less painful, but as desire are satisfied new desire appear you move on to the next priorities

Making money / getting rich may make one happy the process of that might involve a lot of things that don't make anyone happy tho.

Learning makes one happy, so is sharing, learning for the sake of sharing probably can get tire some

Bring a product to reality can make one happy. Being stuck to a path of doing that might not

So I guess flexibility is important. Not hurried. Not anxious. No compelled.

Things that don't serve a purpose and aren't hurried seem good.

Taking photos for the sake of documenting and remembering and revisiting seem good.