The World Happiness Report suggests that altruism – acts that aim to improve another’s wellbeing – improves your own sense of wellbeing, leading to high life satisfaction and experiencing more positive emotions and fewer negative emotions.
Young writers will not be obliged to draw attention to themselves by sensational pot-boilers, with a view to acquiring the economic independence needed for monumental works, for which, when the time at last comes, they will have lost the taste and the capacity.