THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



week to week and from year to year. You will gain 

 time by it in the end. You will come nearer to living 

 your life fully which is another way of saying happily. 

 The man that has no interests outside the one line of his 

 business or profession develops at best a pitifully one- 

 sided and incomplete personality. Even though he 

 attain great success, we may question whether his ag- 

 gregate of pleasure has been as large as it might have 

 been had he widened his horizons. He has lacked the 

 all important spice of variety. He has sat at a banquet 

 of a single course. 



You may well hesitate to imitate him in this regard, 

 even for the prize of like success. Rather take warning 

 from his warped personality. If you yourself have no 

 innate interest or ideal that beckons you aside for hours 

 of relaxation, you should create one. In other words, 

 you should choose a hobby if a hobby has not already 

 chosen you. If you have learned the art of working, 

 you should study only less ardently the art of playing. 

 As a factor in your happiness, the choice of an avocation 

 is scarcely less important than the choice of a vocation. 



As to the exact character of this avocation, your 

 individual tastes, opportunities, and needs must decide. 

 If you have a strong innate leaning toward some special 

 line of investigation, that of course will aid you in the 

 selection. Otherwise, if you are an average man, it 

 perhaps will not greatly matter which one of many 

 lines you pursue, provided it be one in which you 

 can develop a real and abiding interest, and that it be not 

 too similar to the work of your business life. 



