Don't Tell Me About Your Childhood!

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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First--why aren't you smiling? Followed by Joe's re-telling of an Arthur Brooke's column on happiness.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed human.
0:04.3	Don't tell me about your childhood.
0:05.7	I don't want to hear it.
0:06.6	It's one more thing.
0:08.5	Armstrong and Getty.
0:10.0	One more thing.
0:16.2	So I have for a year, several years now, been aware of the study of happiness in the world of psychology
0:24.2	because it was figured out by a couple of terrific authors, Martin Seligman, among others.
0:32.7	I think I have his landmark book somewhere or other that, hey, it just occurred to me that
0:37.3	everybody in my field studies on happiness.
0:39.8	Has anybody studied happiness?
0:42.0	I read The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama.
0:45.3	Geez, 25 years ago, one of the most important books I ever read in my life, definitely.
0:51.3	His main thesis was it's perfectly okay to pursue happiness.
0:55.0	You just got to put a little thought into what actually makes you happy.
0:58.8	We do all kinds of...
0:59.4	Mind your own business.
1:00.3	Put on some pants.
1:01.1	We do things all the time that don't actually make us happy.
1:04.5	We know they don't make us happy, but we do them anyway.
1:08.3	Yeah.
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