The first is that smiley ebullience is highly heritable and very hard to get more of. Two things wrong with this ideaīut there are two things radically wrong with this hedonic view. The hedonic view of happiness convinces us that Goldie Hawn and Debbie Reynolds are the paradigmatic examples of being happy: smiley, ebullient, cheerful, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. "You are redefining happiness arbitrarily," they say. So pervasive is this "hedonic" view of happiness that when I tell audiences that there are two other paths to happy lives - the Good Life and the Meaningful Life - that need not have any positive emotion at all, they are incredulous. A life that maximizes the amount of positive feelings and minimizes the amount of negative ones is a happy life.
The American public and most of the rest of the world believes that happiness equals pleasure.
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