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Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
~~ Agatha Christie ~~ (1890 - 1976)

I agree with that. What exactly is a success or to be more precise, who is a successful person? Normally we define somebody as successful if that person has managed to hold a high office such as President or Prime Minister of a country or Owner or CEO of a corporation or an actor, actress or athlete who rose to the top of his or her profession and manged to amass a lot of wealth etc. though such a definition of success is debatable. Attainment of such high positions or amassing of wealth certainly gets them noticed by the world.

However, considering what most of these people end up doing after attaining such exalted positions, they can not really be happy. For example sex scandals, outright corruption, driving while drunk, using illegal performance enhancing drugs or other unlawful activities by many of these so called successful people come to light quite frequently. They wouldn’t be doing such things if they were happy and content. Happiness is simply a state of mind that usually lasts only for a little while; no matter how successful one might be. On the other hand, even those who are considered total failures or are totally deprived, also experience moments of happiness.

Sometimes I think many of these so called successful people are border-line crazy and they crave constant attention from others. Very difficult, if not impossible, to have a happy disposition under such circumstances.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
~~ Agatha Christie ~~ (1890 - 1976)

It is so true. It’s funny how we seem to think that we know ourselves well, yet we are almost never aware of many little habits that we have until somebody points them out to us. And while we are blissfully unaware of most of these little habits of ours, these little habits may be driving other people around us up the wall. Further, we usually tend to resent those who gather the guts to tell us about our irritating habits.

I do not think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arise directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
~~ Agatha Christie ~~

That is funny and also explains why lazy people can always come up with an excellent excuse for not doing anything. But necessity indeed is the mother of inventions even if that necessity may be ‘to save oneself trouble!’