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"happiness". They have both an external and internal source for validation and knowledge of their contribution. A person who is not productive, who experiences none of these things, has a greatly diminished capacity for happiness as they are rooted in the lower realms of the needs.

A person who is productive but neither values their production nor are they valued for it has the least capacity for happiness of all. The factory worker who feels no connection to the success and quality of the finished product, the minimum wage worker who is constantly told that they can be replaced at any moment - not only experience a lack of value but perhaps more devastating, spend their days feeling as if they are wasted or not worth anything at all. The sense of belonging and identification in the process of production is non-existent. They are frozen, mid-rung, on the ladder of needs.

A happy person produces not only quantity and quality, but has a discernible capacity to make connections that may lead to invention. For the happy person, the production is a part of their life, to be examined and improved upon. The unhappy person bears their productivity like a burden, resentful of its demands. The unhappy person may invent, but it is not with a freewheeling kind of genius, but the inspired but limited invention of someone seeking to relive drudgery.

Productivity is conducive to happiness, but once happiness is experience (or achieved), is that person as productive as they were before they knew themselves to be happy?

Happiness, in all its forms, changes the experience of life that a person has. It gives rise to a mild (for some) form of paranoia that at any moment, they will be made unhappy. For these, happiness becomes a trap and anything that they have associated with causing the happiness becomes something to be treated warily. They may, unconsciously, seek to maintain the status quo. Maintaining that has rarely proved beneficial to productivity.

Others find happiness inspiring and seek to repeat and reinforce the experience and all that is associated with it to the point of maniacally repeating themselves and denying new experiences.

The truly happy person, the one whose happiness stems from true fulfillment of their needs, discovers that the kind of production we tend to talk about in Western society, is not very important at all. The genius that is inspired as they rose to their state of happiness begins to become valued for its origination in the self. From the middle

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