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🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Someone once told Steve a secret to happiness he's never forgotten: “You always need to have two things to look forward to.”
“Why two?”
“You need one so that you can look ahead and know something exciting is on the horizon. And you need to a second so that you don’t get depressed when the first one ends.”
In this episode we talk about:
- The benefits of "positive anticipation" for your happiness
- Why purpose really matters
- Whether you should keep chocolate in the fridge
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0:00.0 | Well, hello everyone and welcome back. What's going on Matt? We're at the very |
0:29.9 | sort of end here of a long winter. Yeah, there's a lot, you know, mum has been |
0:36.4 | putting out a lot of the spring stuff about the home. So it feels like very much |
0:42.4 | we're entering the new phase of the season when I've seen her. She's, you know, |
0:47.0 | pop in early Easter decorations around little chicks going up on her |
0:52.4 | mantelpiece and I feel like things are there's a new chapter. Well, she suddenly |
0:58.6 | got space because it's March and she only took the Christmas decorations down |
1:02.1 | yesterday. That is true. That is true. I mean, honestly, it was starting to look |
1:07.9 | mental. I'm watching like you guys, you know, doing face times with you guys at |
1:13.0 | home and still seeing Christmas decorations everywhere and it being March was |
1:18.2 | starting to freak me out a little bit. I went down at the end of February, but it |
1:22.0 | was quite, it was quite excessive. We finally got rid of them all and here we are. |
1:28.6 | So I was thinking about what's ahead and thinking about the topic of happiness |
1:33.9 | of life satisfaction as I'm often one to ponder. I like to maybe overthink |
1:41.8 | about these things, but I was thinking about how important it is to have things |
1:48.3 | to look forward to in life and the importance of positive anticipation. You know, |
1:56.6 | when it comes to happiness, there's no like as much as people like to give it, |
2:01.9 | I don't really think there's a secret to happiness. I think with a lot of |
2:05.6 | important things in life, there are many secrets, right? And happiness anyway is a |
2:10.7 | bit of an elusive concept that the best of times, your mood changes, it comes |
2:16.5 | and goes and you know, it's quite a hard thing to grasp on, but I do think about |
2:21.0 | what keeps you motivated, what keeps you excited, what gives you some kind of |
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