Summary Of In Pursuit Of Unhappiness By Darrin M. Mcmahon

In the article, “In Pursuit of Unhappiness,” Darrin M. McMahon, a professor of history at Florida State, speculates that you cannot attain happiness by focusing solely on it; instead, you should aim at something else, such as, bringing joy to others around you or even a passion and you will find happiness as a by-product. He supports this theory by first quoting a famous philosopher, John Stuart Mill, as he explains that setting your mind on enlivening the lives of people around you will work to increase your happiness rather than selfishly concentrating on your own pleasure, also, McMahon informs the audience that even though humans have recently begun paying vast amounts of attention to their own happiness, we are no happier than our predecessors