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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2016/08/16) The pursuit of happiness (Culture) (Repost)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness - TEDTalks - Air Date: 12-23-15

Ch. 3: Song 1: Happiness - Pet Shop Boys


Ch. 4: Act 2: The World Happiness Report - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 03-23-16

Ch. 5: Song 2: Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare) [feat. MGMT & Ratatat] - Kid Cudi


Ch. 6: Act 3: Living with Gratitude in an Imperfect World - Progressive Faith Sermons w/ @RevDrRay - Air Date: 11-22-15

Ch. 7: Song 3: Happy now? - No Doubt


Ch. 8: Act 4: We Are Built To Be Kind - Fig. 1 by University of California - Air Date: 12-2-14

Ch. 9: Song 4: Happy - Sister Hazel


Ch. 10: Act 5: Punctuating happiness - Backstory - Air Date 7-17-15

Ch. 11: Song 5: Everybody Loves a Happy Ending - Tears for Fears


Ch. 12: Act 6: David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful - TEDTalks - Air Date 11-27-13


Voicemails

Ch. 13: Recommending "The Most Good You Can Do" - Nick from Colorado

Ch. 14: A few quick thoughts on voting reform - Jeff from Massachusetts

Ch. 15: Supporting the minimum wage but worrying about automation - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics


Ch. 16: Final comments on finding gratitude in the face of the death of a loved one

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone


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0:00.0

All of us want to be happy.

0:03.1

How be imagine our happiness, that differs from one another.

0:08.5

But it's already a lot that we have all in common that we want to be happy.

0:15.9

Welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with Clips Today from Ted Talks,

0:23.7

the majority report, a progressive faith sermon with Dr. Roger Ray, figure one by the University

0:29.1

of California and backstory.

0:37.9

What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life?

0:43.5

If you were going to invest now in your future best self, where would you put your time

0:49.8

and your energy?

0:52.1

There was a recent survey of millennials asking them what their most important life goals

0:57.8

were.

0:59.8

And over 80% said that a major life goal for them was to get rich.

1:05.9

And another 50% of those same young adults said that another major life goal was to become

1:13.3

famous.

1:17.3

And we're constantly told to lean in to work, to push harder and achieve more.

1:25.9

We're given the impression that these are the things that we need to go after in order

1:29.5

to have a good life.

1:31.7

Pictures of entire lives of the choices that people make and how those choices work out

1:37.7

for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.

1:43.4

Most of what we know about human life, we know from asking people to remember the past.

1:49.6

And as we know, hindsight is anything but 2020.

1:54.4

We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life.

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