This makes a lot of sense to me...and its a new insight on happiness...as a function of presence of mind.

By placing a greater emphasis on the coordinates of one's mind, you can be more intentional about finding satisfaction within those coordinates. For me, I've always been more fascinated with my vector, and whether I'm satisfied with its heading.

Are these ideas competing, or complementary?

This line of thinking kind of skirts this idea I have had rolling about in my head, which I wanted to share with you and get your take.

In fact, if you're taking requests I'd love to nominate this as a future topic for one of your posts :)

In the past, I've asserted that one key thing needed to ensure happiness (or at the very least stave off depression) is struggle...not so much in terms of suffering, but in terms of having challenges that one must work hard/smart in order to overcome.

Lately, I've been flirting with the notion that this is untrue. Instead, the only things one needs to achieve long-term, meaningful happiness are love and curiosity.

So where do you stand? Unfortunately I've no answers, just a healthy curiosity :)