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Before we start the show, I want to remind you that in just one week my book launches.

It's a memoir called The Family Outing. It's all about how everyone in my family found a way out of a closet and toward each other.

If you've already ordered a copy, thank you and it should arrive in your mailbox on October 4th.

And if you'd like to check it out, you can find it wherever books are sold.

And now the show.

Sometimes it feels like everything is awful all the time.

There's the pandemic and climate change, economic uncertainty.

And if I forget about any of it for five minutes, my phone reminds me.

I find myself doom scrolling mindlessly.

My heart thumping fast in my chest.

Does this happen to you?

I've come to think of the state as ambiant anxiety.

And it'd be easy to think that this feeling is endemic, that it's just here to stay.

That's why I've recently become obsessed with happiness.

Not as a state, but as a practice.

I think it can be a powerful counter to this anxiety all around us.

So today, I want to challenge you.

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