309 - How to Find True Happiness
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What do the world's happiest people do? You're about to find out, thanks to these throwback interviews with Dan Buettner and Chris Guillebeau. You'll learn how to add more happiness to your life no matter where you live or what you do.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Louise from Team Forleo, and we're dipping back into the vault with two phenomenal |
| 0:08.7 | individuals who've made it their life's work to study happiness. |
| 0:13.0 | First up, you'll hear from Dan Butiner, who is legendary book Blue Zones, highlights |
| 0:16.8 | regions of the world where people live longer, happier, and healthier lives, and what they |
| 0:21.1 | do differently. |
| 0:23.0 | If you're a goal-oriented person who craves more purpose and adventure, then you'll |
| 0:26.6 | love the second half of the episode with Chris Killabo. |
| 0:30.0 | He talks about how to add more meaning to your life by undertaking a quest. |
| 0:34.5 | I know you're going to love this one, so let's get started. |
| 0:40.2 | So happiness, it is somewhat a nebulous term, right? |
| 0:44.6 | It's really difficult to define, and from what I've learned from you, it's a compositive |
| 0:49.0 | thing. |
| 0:50.0 | So as you've shared that, well, yes, we cannot really measure happiness. |
| 0:53.8 | We can measure the facets of it. |
| 0:55.5 | There are three big ones. |
| 0:56.5 | Tell us about those. |
| 0:57.5 | Yes. |
| 0:58.5 | So the first one and the most commonly used question is around something called life satisfaction. |
| 1:09.0 | So research will ask you, if you think of your life as a whole, with your best imaginable |
| 1:14.7 | life being a 10 and your worst imaginable life being a 1, where would you place your happiness? |
| 1:21.4 | And when that's done at the population level, you can get a really good reading on how |
| 1:25.3 | well people in places evaluate their lives. |
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