Einstein’s Theory Of Happiness Sold For $1.6 Million

1922 was quite a busy year for Albert Einstein. He finished his paper on unified field theory, he went to Paris to help normalize relations between France and Germany, that after some years were engaged one against the other in the Second World War, and in the end he was warded the Nobel Prize in physic for ‘his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect’.

However, Einstein declined the invitation and never went to the ceremony. Instead, he decided to keep his plans and give lectures in Japan. Almost 2500 people paid to attend his lectures, without being provided any translation and for the length of full four hours.

Crowds were following him everywhere he went, even to his hotel room.

When a courier came to his room to make a delivery, in order to show his gratitude, instead of tipping him Einstein gave the courier a note handwritten in his native German.

The note read: ‘A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness’.

This advice turned out right. Just recently it was sold at an auction reaching the price of $1,560,000. People do not look at is as a simple tip, but as a paper containing his Theory of Happiness.