Better Goals Than Happiness

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Joshua and Ryan discuss the prime objective of life. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0	I just forgot to add that words.
0:02.0	Hahahaha.
0:04.0	A brand new month is approaching and that means it's the perfect time to let go.
0:09.0	You can play the 30-day minimalism game and also download our free principal 30-day minimalism game calendar
0:16.0	over at TheMinimalists.com slash game.
0:20.0	Enjoy.
0:22.0	This is the best goal in life.
0:24.0	No.
0:25.0	Happiness is not the best goal in life.
0:27.0	It's funny because when I was a kid, I remember having this brilliant epiphany because as a kid, I remember seeing it on TV.
0:39.0	Are you here?
0:40.0	Adults talk about it.
0:41.0	What is the point of life?
0:42.0	What is the purpose of life?
0:44.0	And I remember as a child, I thought, oh, God just wants you to be happy.
0:50.0	It's the goal of life is to just be happy.
0:54.0	Everything we do serves happiness.
0:56.0	And for the longest time, that was my goal, was to be happy.
1:00.0	But the problem is that as I got older, I started to realize how ephemeral happiness was.
1:07.0	And because of that, I started to chase a bunch of ephemeral things.
1:11.0	And arguably, there are some great drugs out there that you can take to make yourself happy.
1:16.0	Right.
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