"Philosophers down the ages have been keen to tell the rest of us how to live and how to be happy. Certainly their advice comes to us with the lustre of intellectual achievement; it is both high-brow and high-powered, but can we understand any of it and how does it fare against modern psychological research?"

Marcus Aurelius, the Father of CBT!

Hmm...I kind of take a little bit from here, a little bit from there and end up with my own eclectic philosopy, which, of course, is subject to change.

"untroubled"..? love it, thx Socra

God this all takes me back to philosophy studies 30 years ago.Pursuit of pleasure is something even the Dali Lama does not have a problem with.
As for. Hedonism Jamaica!!!!!
Woo-hoo.!!!!!

Epicurus is "wrong" because Bergsma and colleagues say so??... Pop psychology is so parochial.

"When he was three, he had occasion to see a little girl being bathed, but he was berated for looking"
........ Fear Of Life.

Freed of bad conscience, unhappiness can not enter therein.