Happiness…From the Beatles to Aristotle and Smiling Chimps

We are more likely to scan the cover of People Magazine than sit down with a book of one of the Greek philosophers such as Aristotle these days.
Happiness might be doing something you like and being somehow good at it.
Happiness could also be watching the river flow.
The Beatles sang that ‘Happiness is a warm gun’.

Daniel Gilbert of Harvard wrote ‘Stumbling on Happiness‘ and I like his comparison on the flurry of books on potty training and ‘happiness management’.
Should we go back in time and listen again to Funkadelic (1971) ‘Free your Mind and…‘?
The FT ‘ A Subject worth taking seriously‘ book review got me going.