INSTANT COFFEE, NOT GRATIFICATION –
Mar. 18, 2026 – “Essentially, we want it right now. This has turned the pursuit into a dopamine addiction; a hunt for instant gratification that provides a bit of short-term pleasure but doesn’t actually satisfy or fulfil us. That isn’t true happiness. Ironically, the more obsessively we chase it, the unhappier we become.”
Can the constant search for happiness actually bring us the opposite?
“Absolutely. It is counterproductive because we aren’t going to find happiness outside of ourselves. Instead, it’s the result of deep personal work – looking after our bodies, our minds, our spirits and our nervous systems.”
Some argue that humans simply aren’t “wired” to be happy all the time. What’s your take on that?
“We have to start from the premise that the human brain isn’t evolved for happiness; it’s evolved for survival. Most people have a very skewed idea of what happiness actually is – they think it means everything must go their way, or that they should be in a permanent state of euphoria.
