A meaningful life is so much better than living a happy life.

And that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

I'm your host, the Malik Josephs of MalikJosus.com.

Feeling in for Sean Croxton of Sean Croxton.com.

And before we get to today's show, I just want to ask everybody how to go yesterday.

Did you get that small thing done without any distractions?

Well, I hope you all did and you're feeling happy because of it.

And that's today's topic with our brand new speaker, Sean Acre.

And Sean is a Harvard graduate and psychologist.

And today, Sean teaches us about his definition of happiness.

Here's Sean.

Even though everyone in this room and everyone watching has different definitions of happiness,

that if I ask you on a scale of 1 to 10, how happy you felt over the past two weeks,

most of us can kind of put ourselves on that spectrum.

We can put ourselves somewhere on that range.

What we found is that even though that's a subjective experience, if I go into a hospital

and with a broken arm, there's no pain meter that can hook me up to that automatically

means that I'm experiencing an 8 out of 10 on a pain scale.

The same thing is true with happiness.

That we treat people based upon the pain that they actually experience and we can actually

study people based upon their subjective experience of happiness that they're experiencing

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