Why is happiness still a mystery?

Deepak Chopra (SFGate.com) PBS has just finished a three-part special on human emotions, with the final episode devoted to happiness. It may surprise many that happiness is a hot subject, especially in the new field of positive psychology. Just as medicine studies disease to find out how to get patients well, psychology has almost entirely been about the mind's maladies. Positive psychology attempts to reverse this focus by studying a person's strengths rather than his weaknesses. More>>