Effort is the essence of happiness: there is no happinessexcept as we take on challenges.

Effort is the essence of happiness: there is no happiness

except as we take on challenges. Short of the

impossible, the satisfactions we get from a lifetime depend

on how high we place our difficulties. The mortal flaw in

the advertised version of happiness is in fact that it claims 【S1】______

to be effortless.

We demand difficulty ever in our diversions (娱乐). 【S2】______

We demand it because without difficulty there can be no

game; a game is a way of making something easy for the 【S3】______

fun of it. The rules of the game are an arbitrary addition of

difficulty. It is easier to win a chess if you are flee to change 【S4】______

the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules. If we

could mint (铸造) our own money, even building a fortune

will become boring. No difficulty, no fun. 【S5】______

Happiness is never more than partial. Whoever else 【S6】______

happiness may be, it is neither in having nor being, but in 【S7】______

becoming. What the writers of the Constitution declared

for us as an inherent right was not happiness but pursuit 【S8】______

of happiness. What the early patriots may have underlined, 【S9】______

could they have foreseen the happiness-market, is the

cardinal fact that happiness is in the pursuit itself, 【S10】______

in the pursuit what is engaging and life-changing, which is to say,

in the idea of becoming. A nation is not measured by what it

possesses or wants to possess, but by what it wants to

become.

【S1】