Happy are people make it a point to make other people happy and

That is the quote of the day

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton a Sean Croxton.com

You're gonna love today's episode because today speaker Adam Leipzig

He helps us to do something that so many of us struggle with he's gonna show you how to find your purpose

He's gonna show you how to do it in just five minutes. Here's Adam

On the last evening of my 25th College reunion

There was a party in a tent

There was dancing and music and noise

So much noise that a lot of us started to drift out of the tent

So we could hear each other talk and catch up with classmates that we had not seen in more than two decades

As I talked with my friends. I made an astounding discovery

80% of them were unhappy with their lives

I feel as though I've wasted my life and I'm halfway through it. They said I don't know what my life is all about

Now I was privileged to go to Yale and

We were standing on a summer evening in the middle of Yale's old campus and the people that I was speaking with

Were privileged and highly educated and financially well off and positions of power and

They had the first house and the second house and they had the first spouse and the second spouse

And 80% of them were unhappy with their lives

Who was happy the 20%

Well, we had studied literature and Renaissance rhetoric and we were the theater people and the history geeks

We had studied classes for the joy of learning

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