> "But, of course, what could be more uninteresting than doing what everyone else thinks is interesting?" so why define your happiness primarily on what others

> "But, of course, what could be more uninteresting than doing what everyone else thinks is interesting?" so why define your happiness primarily on what others think? a false premise, at the very least (but one many of us do seem to fall for from time to time). as @Bakary originally suggested, interesting lives don't seem to be led so deliberately.