getting all highbrow

So I'm having a highbrow-ish moment back in Blighty and reading "The Consolations of Philosophy" by Alain de Botton. It puts the main theories of philosophical thought into layman's terms which suits me just fine and then applies them to the modern world. Sort of.

I kid you not, the "Happiness, an acquisition list" chapter begins as follows:

"1. A hut."

So I'm nearly there already! Surely.