Pursuit of Happiness Fallacy

You have heard Pursuit of Happiness Fallacy at a dinner table, perhaps from an uncle, perhaps from yourself. It is a common family inheritance.

Once you can name this fallacy, you will hear it everywhere — in advertisements, in debates, in your own head at 2 a.m. Do not despair. Hearing it is the beginning of escaping it.

Ask any student of classical music. Ten years of scales before the first real improvisation. The shortcut generation finds this offensive; the tanpura is unmoved.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Keep the name. Use the pause it gives you. That is the entire homework.