Don't presume what makes you happy will make someone else happy. In fact, it might have the opposite effect.

Here's an example.

I have a point of view on religion that is not in any way compatible with the point of view of other people I have met. Yet, I can see that their religion makes them happy. For some reason, this happiness they experience compels them to bang on my door and tell me how happy I could be if I adopt their religion because it makes THEM happy.

That makes me very, very, very unhappy.

What eventually made ME happy about this whole encounter was that once they came knocking on my door and my wife used a particular combination of words that caused the color to drain from the faces of our persistent visitors, followed by a hasty, and apparently permanent, retreat. We've not seen them again for several years.

I am reminded, by this encounter, that the golden rule - "Do unto others as they would do unto you" is utter nonsense.

You see, that's the point - happiness is subjective, and "the golden rule" is not an effective guide to attaining it in any way, because what I want and what you want aren't the same and, at a global scale, we can't agree on a religion or philosophy that might serve as an objective standard by which we can run our lives and "attain happiness."