The connection between Satisfaction, Contentment and Happiness
To have happiness, one must definitely possess Satisfaction and contentment. In modern days, both are quite impossible. The need for more is increasing each day. They just grow relentless. Everyone has the thirst for power and fame. Is it called Greediness ? This is something more than greed.
The greed often motivates one to do work harder, better and carry on with innovation. But this is a kind of addiction. Renunciation is an aspect of the path to spirituality. But if renunciation is misinterpreted, it could lead to depravity. There is a famous proverb, "What we Sow, so shall we reap".
So if we bury seeds of those power, fame, lust into soil of the subconscious we just get the same as output. We can see that some persons are more ambitious and this is due to neurological basis. They have identified their primal desires and they have located these in a separate area.
Human Mind is a very complicated one. One must understand themselves before understanding the complexity of Human brain. The power of discretion gives one insight and awareness of one's own predispositions, tendencies and weaknesses.