Happiness cannot be pursued, you do not find happiness happiness finds you. It is not an end in itself but a byproduct of other activities, often arriving when least expected is a terrible irony to being American, because one of the inalienable rights of being American is the right to pursue happiness, which is a surefire road to misery. Because happiness is a moving target, right? It's always moving away because your mind is a hedonic treadmill. And once one desires stated, it'll be quickly replaced by another desire. So the best way to become happy is to have practices that keep you at the high end of your happiness spectrum and be devoted and discipline to those practices and know that scientifically yoga and meditation and all these other things will keep you happy.

Whereas drinking a bottle of gin for breakfast, the whole keyboard, the low end of your happiness spectrum. So yeah, you can't pursue happiness. You just have to like live a good life of integrity and authenticity, and happiness will be an unexpected ramification.