Freedom vs (Delivering) Happiness

HKW — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:48:44 +0000

“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” -Frank Tyger

I heard this quote today from Tony Hsieh of Zappos, while working my way through my advanced preview copy of Tony’s new book, Delivering Happiness.

Over the past couple of years, I think I’ve figured out the 1st part, and I am living it. I think it’s time to start moving towards cracking the 2nd part.

I have considered myself pretty happy. But perhaps I’m merely satisfied? Doing what you like simply takes some risk and hard work, and you can gain plenty of satisfaction. But to pursue happiness- one needs to go beyond the ’self’, and find something beyond fulfilling your own needs but to fulfill the needs of society on a great whole.

In other words, to desire freedom you have to be pretty selfish. To obtain happiness, you must be rather selfless. In short: happiness and satisfaction are 2 pretty different things.

But is it a catch-22? Or is it possible to get both? I’d love to know what you think in the comments below.

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Freedom vs (Delivering) Happiness

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