Jean Piaget tried to reconcile these two viewpoints, which seemed incongruous with the years-long logical study of happiness. In his early years of clinical work, Piaget conducted a remarkable set of tests that clearly connected children's awareness, anxiety, and happiness. Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler supported Piaget in his belief that children needed to learn the things that adults did not want to learn, such as the critical consciousness of pain, the anguish of frustration, and the dread of uncertainty. Piaget contrasted between the notions that "Happiness" and "Anxiety" are formed from

Seemingly contradictory to the logical studies of happiness that had been going on for several years, Jean Piaget sought to bridge these two perspectives. In a remarkable series of experiments in his earliest years of clinical work, Piaget demonstrated that a child's awareness, anxiety, and happiness were distinctly interconnected. With the encouragement of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, Piaget believed that children had to learn the things that adults did not want to learn: the critical consciousness of suffering, the agony of frustration, the anxiety of being uncertain. Piaget distinguishe