I won’t keep you. I know you’re busy, crazy busy — possibly busier than you’ve ever been before — and none of us are happy about it. It’s hardly surprising, and not a new problem. Back in 1660, Blaise Pascal wrote:
‘I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.’1
We are all too busy to be happy. But interestingly, Pascal asked the question as to why we are busy and came up with the answer that we keep ourselves busy to distract ourselves from the fact that we are ultimately going to die. He writes:
‘Despite [his] afflictions man wants to be happy … But how shall he …