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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 658. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset, Who this, as always. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to talk about what will make us happy. Seriously, what will actually make me happy? Like, not just for a day, but sustained. Like, hey, this is great. I am a happy person. I'm living a happy life. My state is that of happiness. It might come and go, of course, but overall, I'm happy. What will do the trick for me?

What will do the trick for you? Like, finally, not just the taste, not just the old happiness

appetizer, but the full meal, the full happy meal. And it's certainly

a valid question, right? Because I feel like we spend the majority of our life and the majority

of our angst comes from not having found that thing. We're always looking for that thing.

Happiness as an emotional state is so fleeting. Rightfully so, I guess, but we play such a

large role in our own suffering by continuing to always up the ante as far as what is good enough,

what is happy enough. And I was listening to something this psychologist was saying. Her name is Sondja

Liebour Mirski spelling there, pronunciation. And she said it in an interview she did on the

Rich Roll podcast, which you might be familiar with. And it was just one line that really got me

thinking. She was talking about tons of great topics there. She was talking about happiness,

a topic that has gotten a lot of attention and research over the past decades as we've become increasingly obsessed with the topic. She said, quote, the preoccupation with our

own happiness mainly exists in the Western world. It's mostly in America, Europe, and Australia

that we have the luxury

to worry about our happiness. If your basic needs aren't met, if you're living with a lot of

uncertainty and instability, you just don't have time in your day to be thinking, oh, am I happy?

What should I do to be happier? I think that is the source of a lot of unhappiness, end quote.

And this isn't an episode about how privileged we are living in the West to even have time

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