Welcome back to advice session. A series here on Anything Goes where you send in your current

dilemmas or anything you want advice on. And then I give you my own professional advice.

And today's topic is the pursuit of pleasant emotion. Okay, I'm talking about happiness, joy,

fulfillment, contentment. I'm talking about a lust for life, a sparkle in the eye. You know, the good stuff,

the feelings we like feeling. The feelings that when we're not feeling them, we're pursuing feeling

them again. Okay. It kind of feels like life is split into two parts. Feeling pleasant emotion

and pursuing feeling pleasant emotion again. And that might be

oversimplified. But if I were to really simplify my life and look at it in the emotions, that kind of rings

true. Today, I'm going to be giving you all advice on professional advice, of course, as always,

about the pursuit of pleasant emotion. I wish I could sit here and just say, of course, as always, about the pursuit of pleasant emotion.

I wish I could sit here and just say, you guys, all you got to do is just shut your eyes

and think really hard about feeling good, and then you'll feel good again. I wish I could

sit here and say that, but I can't. Unfortunately, the pursuit is a bit more complex.

And so without further ado, let's get into it. I briefly interrupt

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Okay, somebody said, how do you stay happy? I feel happiness sometimes, but it's so fleeting. How do I keep it?

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