June SAT Essay Discussion

SZ_0626
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:47:08 +0000

“Are people more likely to be happy if they focus on goals other than their own happiness?”

that was my prompt. im so glad that i didnt misread it or something, because almost everyone i spoke to at my school had the one similar to it, and they tried convincing me i answered it wrong.

question: in the prompt, there is a quote that says, “People are happy only when they have their minds fixed on some goal other than their own happiness. Happiness comes when people focus instead on the happiness of others, on the improvement of humanity, on some course of action that is followed not as a means to anything else but as an end in itself. Aiming at something other than their own happiness, they find happiness along the way. The only way to be happy is to pursue some goal external to your own happiness.”


if i answered that talking about how striving to achieve material wealth doesnt always lead to happiness as a key part of my essay, does that still make sense in accordance to the quote?