Lately I find myself thinking about years ago when I was a psychology major learning about the set point theory of happiness and a study by Brickman et al. (1978). Basically the study followed a group of people that had just won the lottery and another group that had just become paralyzed, after a period of adjustment both groups returned to the same levels of happiness they experienced prior to the life changing event. What I take from that is that individual capacity for happiness is an unchangeable aspect of one's personality. From experience I know that I personally am prone to malcontent. The question that this begs is that if I know that I cannot be happy. what can I be instead ? Where should I focus my energy and effort ? If I know that I am not ever going to be very happy and that there is no point exerting effort to become happy what can I do that will make a difference to my level of life satisfaction ?