ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the creative activity pathway to well-being by comfort pathway. Scitovsky included in comfort the component called social comfort on the basis of the fact that the typical social discomfort is the feeling of exclusion from the reference community. Comfort and creative activity are linked together in several ways. Some links push the two options towards their substitutability, and some other links push them towards complementarity. Scitovsky's distinction between comfort and creative activity should not be confused with another distinction sometimes used by social scientists, such as the classical economists. Education, especially at higher grades, can be used to pursue higher levels of comfort because it can be oriented to the acquisition of skills useful for the labour market, that is, production skills. In an individual's life, at times of decision-taking, life skill is primarily inherited from childhood.
