Paul André Griffin A few years ago About myself I was born in Paris France, and lived there five years Have a B.A. from Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Stanford Practiced theoretical physics for about 12 years Co-founded a biometrics company called Visionics (now part of Sagem) Currently enjoy finance as a Quantitative Portfolio Manager   How to find happiness   Modern Neuroscience has found a simple prescription for happiness, associated with three areas of the brain. Your prefrontal cortex associates   meaningfulness to your actions.   Your fear sensing amygdalae are inactive, and calm.   Your left brain is  verbalizing, listening, reading, preparing, or calculating. Happiness comes from meaningful, fear-free, problem solving. Burnett's Creek A way to the beach Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs.  For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and the ends are reached by discipline. Cicero, Rhetorica Ad Herennium, pt. III