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About DKJ Research
| DKJ Research was started by David Kilpatrick Johnston in
2004 as a way to research just about anything. The aim was to turn the
thinking and tinkering that he did in his spare time into something more
formal, and to provide a vehicle for future research.
The research done covers many fields, and perhaps the best place to start is with the biggest question of all: the meaning of life. As an atheist the answer was not readily available, and some would say there is no answer, so the answer was conveniently chosen to be: happiness. Now the question become: How can you achieve happiness? Like much of research a convenient way to arrive at an answer is to propose something and then see why it doesn't work. Hence the initial solution to the problem was: Happiness v1.0: Happiness is having everything you want. There are two ways to achieve this. The first is to go down the Buddhist line and not desire anything - which automatically satisfies this and hence should produce happiness. The second is to aspire to be someone such as Bill Gates and be in a position to have just about everything you could want. On further reflection it was decided that these two solutions don't seem to produce happiness. There are many people out there with lots of money that aren't really all that happy, and there are also lots of people who would describe themselves as "content" but not necessarily "happy". This lead to the new improved: Happiness v2.0: Happiness is scratching an itch. Which means that happiness requires two things, firstly it requires an itch, and secondly it requires a way of scratching it. It also says nothing about what a valid itch is, hence you can choose whatever itch you like - be it collecting stamps or world domination, they both can make you happy. It also explains why having a lot of money by itself isn't always the way to go. The end result of this was that research was identified as a valid itch, and so the birth of DKJ Research - somewhere that research happens without any particular destination in mind. While from time to time there are useful outcomes (which pay the bills), the primary goal is to enjoy research and the places it can lead. |