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You wrote this masterpiece from Strength to Strength, and you recently wrote a new book with Oprah Winfrey, which is not a bad co-author.

Not bad.

Called Build the Life You Want, just an amazing voice out in the world. You do something very unique. You teach happiness.

Yeah. Science of happiness. The science of happiness, which is God help us, we need it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The world, I mean, it's, you look at the data on the, you know, what's been

going on in the United States and around the world. We've been taken down in happiness since about

1990, as a matter of fact. It's free fallen. It's, you know, I dedicated the rest of my life to lifting people up and bringing them

together in bonds of happiness and love using science as a scientist because that's what

the world needs most.

Okay, so I want to know from that scientific perspective because you can have the motivational

quotes, you can have the gratitude journal, all this stuff.

But for real, in science, what are you, what have you found?

Yeah.

Because everything you've written about, but like, what are some of the things that you're,

you see that's just mind blowing?

Because it has to be where you actually see science and emotion all come together.

Yeah, no, it's an incredible field.

My mind is getting blown continuously.

I read a column every Thursday in the Atlantic about

the science of happiness. And I've done 204 columns and I'm just getting started. There is so much about it.

There's so much to write about it. But when I have, you know, if I get an elevator ride with somebody

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