2. Happiness is an idea that should have no strict definition. Happiness and Discontents highlights how people who have less than those who have more might be happier In the short shorty of Can Money Buy Happiness on page (160-174) it examines a similar ideology. There is a section that is so relatable to everyone “More money can help us get better medical care and a more comfortable retirement. But money is only one part of psychological wealth. That’s the secrete, happiness cannot be defined and even if a definition of happiness was written by a professor at Cornell, the expression of happiness would still be lacking. That is because happiness is unique to the everyone. People have to find out what their own definition of happiness is…show more content… When Thomas Kurton was fired, it was almost a relief to him because in the text it mentions “Now he has the time, the liberty, the isolation to run a new experiment for the happiness gene which he knows that no institute would back. Earlier in the book Kurton says that he never doubted that happiness was chemical. Therefore, that would lend itself to Kurton wanting to understand the make-up of Thassa and trying to sell her eggs for $800 million dollars given that he was on a quest to find what exactly that chemical gene or make-up stem…show more content… Another important lesson from this question is that Kurton stayed true what he enjoyed. In life, our happiness is generated at a young age and as a person gets older the person will either do things that will align with something that made them happy as a child or a person veers away from their passion to create monetary happiness with buying a new car, house, etc. However, monetary happiness tends to be not as rewarding as other forms of happiness. Even when he and his sister were battling for magic trick pride, the thought of chemicals and science fascinated
