Conan, what is best in life? I don’t think we can look too much at our ancestors to conjure a definition of happiness. It’s probably wrong to labor under the

Conan, what is best in life? I don’t think we can look too much at our ancestors to conjure a definition of happiness. It’s probably wrong to labor under the idea that people ought to be happy. The fact that the human mind has such an infinite capacity for suffering and misery, while on the other hand having relatively less capacity for happiness, suggests that our minds are predisposed to not being happy, or not being happy for too long.