The late psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was troubled by a paradox of progress. People alive today have more sophisticated machines, medicines, and systems for organizing the world. So why haven't these advances made us happier? "The gods of the Greeks were like helpless children compared to humankind today and the powers we now wield," he wrote. And yet "we do not understand what happiness is any better than Aristotle did, and as for learning how to attain that blessed condition, one could argue that we have made no progress at all."
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