“ ‘Well,’ said the professor, ‘I think you must be fairly happy, huh? Because a colleague of...

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‘Well,’ said the professor, ‘I think you must be fairly happy, huh? Because a colleague of mine has established that by adding together these three differences — between what we have and what we’d like to have, what we have now and the best of what we’ve had in the past, and what we have and what other people have — you get an average difference which is closely related to happiness. The smaller the difference the happier we are.’

‘But how do you measure happiness?’

‘Ah, ah! Good question,’ said the professor.

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Hector felt uneasy, but he tried to find a comforting thought, and finally he came up with one: ‘Happiness is not attaching too much importance to what other people think.’ That might make a good lesson no. 18 to replace the one he’d crossed out.
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