3 Funny Things
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
What should you do when you thought you had it all -- but learn you've had it all wrong? Discover what our happiness guinea pig did to bring more joy and humor into his life.
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| 0:46.0 | My grandparents had been together for 50 years and then when my grandmother died, my grandfather |
| 0:52.0 | I mean he was devastated. |
| 0:54.0 | Devastated. |
| 0:55.0 | He really felt that there was no purpose anymore to living. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm convinced he passed because of Broken Heart and his passing was |
| 1:05.8 | devastating for me but it also like woke me up and it just sort of made me think do I have that kind of |
| 1:12.2 | powerful relationship in my life? |
| 1:14.0 | And I started to recognize that I didn't have this. |
| 1:19.0 | I was working 16 hour days all the the time and work dominated me. I became obsessed to the point where it was a little bit unhealthy. I mean on paper, I certainly had achieved a lot and yet I felt like a lot was missing. I felt |
| 1:36.5 | empty and I realized that I am not making the choices that make me happy. |
| 1:44.0 | It was a really powerful moment, and that was the moment I realized I got to stop what I'm doing and start over. |
| 1:50.0 | I made several decisions. |
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