Besides, I'm too smart for it. The other objection is, I don't want it to lower my productivity.

I don't want to have less desire or less work ethic. Fact check on that is true.

The more happy you are, the more content and peaceful you are.

This less likely you want to run out there and change the world.

But at the same time, being unhappy is very inefficient.

The peaceful person doesn't have extraneous thoughts going through their head.

If you are a driven unhappy person, your mind will be on 24-7.

What are the consequences of this?

Your sleep is much worse.

You're much more likely to react to become angry and dig yourself into a hole

that you then have to dig yourself out of.

Your decisions are going to be emotionally impetuous.

You're much more likely to be in the busy trap where you're busy all the time,

running from one thing to another because you can't mentally prioritize.

You don't have peace of mind when it comes time to make judgments.

You have too many threads going through your head and you don't have time to devote to making those

judgments. So there's a trade-off. If you become the Buddha tomorrow, it's unlikely you'll also

run rockets to the moon like Elon Musk. But on the other hand, there are enough successful,

optimistic leaders, scientists and innovators, especially as they get older, that you see it's

not necessarily the case that happy people have to be ineffective.

As I became much happier in my life, I actually became much more effective.

I was able to form relationships with people that earlier in my life, I would have kept

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