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The Pursuit of Happiness * The Problem of PursuitJohn Stuart Mill, Autobiography The Paradox of Hedonism—the person who is constantly aiming at happiness tends to find it harder to achieve. ? * The Problem of PredictingDaniel Gilbert, Stumbling on HappinessJonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis To pursue happiness, we have to predict what will makes us happy, but we’re not very good at that. Why not? ? Habituation—We get used to new things, so they make less of a difference than we think they will. “Set point”—we have an inborn happiness-level that doesn’t change much,