Simple Recipe For Happiness

A direct key to success.

- Rama Kashyap

A profound statement on happiness made by one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century! Albert Einstein was touring Japan when he got the news of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics. Overwhelmed by the sudden name and fame, he penned down his musings on a piece of hotel stationery which later came to be known as Einstein's Theory of Happiness.

Here was the man who was engaged in arduous scientific pursuits all through his life, yet he felt at the pinnacle of his stardom that calm and modest life brings more happiness. Restlessness in pursuit of success is physically exhausting and emotionally damaging. The implication is that success is dazzling but comes at a price.

Relationship Between Success And Happiness

I wonder if Einstein's sagacious advice is a blueprint for happiness.

If success is so stressful, why do people hanker after success? Does success not make us happy? It does.

Appreciation, recognition, riches, name and fame associated with success contribute to happiness.

Success provides confidence, security, and a sense of well-being.

However; it is the wild-goose chase for success that takes a toll on happiness. In fact, stress, tension, and anxiety are by-products of the mad race to succeed. Success is addictive, hence there is constant restiveness to achieve more and more which is damaging.

Most of us aspire to be successful in life. We tend to believe that we will automatically become happier through success but happiness doesn't come merely by achieving a goal. Happiness, unlike success, is not to be achieved but to be cultivated.