Snagged this from a comment on the
CPU blog.
It's a link to a fun video presentation on happiness, and it's got some really fascinating information about the differences between synthetic happiness (what we create when we don't get what we want) and natural happiness (what we create when we do get what we want)--and how perhaps natural happiness is overrated.
Towards the end he brings up a quotation from Adam Smith (economist and moral philosopher) that made me go, "Oh my god, he's talking about
3ravensringo's Theory of Cornflakes!"