Whenever you're wanting something really badly, it's that wanting that stands in your

way of actually experiencing it, or if you happen to get it, it stands in your way of

feeling happy as a result of it.

For example, if you do get the wealth, right, then a lot of rich people are miserable because

whenever we get something, the way the mind works is it wants more.

So our present fulfillment should never be based upon future acquisition.

If we're not happy with what we have right now, we will never be happy with what we will

have in the future.

So happiness is ultimately an inside job.

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So obviously I think that there's no shortage of literature at this point about the importance

of sleep and how it impacts damn near everything in our life.

In fact, I was having a conversation with my roommate the other day.

He said, you can actually go longer without food than you can without sleep because it's

that important.

But one of the things that really was striking that you said in the book and it was funny

because my dad told me about this and I kind of just thought it sounded ridiculous.

You say that oiling your feet before sleep is an excellent stability enhancing practice,

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