Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

HAPPINESS IS THE SUPREME GOAL
Aristotle, perhaps the greatest of the philosophers, wrote more than
2,300 years ago that the ultimate aim of all human action is 
happi-
ness
. He concluded that everything a person does is to achieve hap-
piness of some kind. Sometimes they are successful, and sometimes
they are unsuccessful, but happiness is always the target each per-
son aims at.
He concluded that every act is merely an interim step in the di-
rection of happiness. For example, you want to get a good job. Why?
So you can earn good money. Why? So you can get a comfortable
home and a nice car. Why? So you can have good relationships and
a nice family. Why? So that you can have a satisfying home life.
Why? The final answer, the ultimate goal, is so that you can be
happy
. Everything that you or anyone else does is aimed at happi-
ness, however you define it and however successful you are at
achieving it.
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