The Tower of Happiness

How your self-projection determines your happiness level at any point in life

This is you at a very young age.

You wander through the world and everything is new and exciting. Your mind is looking at so many new things for the very first time and starts making connections among them.

As John Locke put it in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, our mind at first is a blank yet receptive slate upon which experience imprints knowledge, a tabula rasa later shaped by “sensations and reflections”, the two sources of all our ideas. As Locke explains, “our understandings derive all the materials of thinking from observations that we make of external objects that can be perceived through the senses (sensations), and of the internal operations of our minds, which we perceive by looking in at ourselves (reflection)”.

So you grow older and you keep walking around the world and these sensations and reflections keep bombarding your mind and provide you with what your brain needs in order to build your tastes, your personality and ultimately, your dreams.