Hello. This is from my conversation on Monday with a guy who is a speaker, a teacher with well over 10,000 hours of meditation under his belt, a leadership advisor to many of the biggest organizations in America and beyond, who also happened to be in the U.S. military back in the day before

trying to defraud the U.S. government and subsequently being sentenced to jail where he faced a

70-year stretch. But while inside, he recognized the real jail was his own mind. And through

meditation and... Yeah, well, I'm sure many of your listeners are already on some type of path where

they're developing spirituality. And maybe there's some that aren't. Maybe some are business

people who are kind of still thinking like, should I ever, you know, think about this or not?

And, you know, I think you're right. There's this trap that we get

into that we think once I, once I achieve this or once I have this thing, then I will be happy.

And all you have to do is do a retrospective analysis and realize that that's a trap. Like every

time you ever achieve anything, yes, there's a temporary boost of happiness.

And this is well researched in positive psychology.

I mean, you have people who win the lottery.

Their happiness spikes a year later, they're right back to their baseline level of happiness.

The opposite is also true. People who get in a car accident and become a quadriplegic,

their happiness takes a huge hit.

A year later, they're right back to their baseline level of happiness.

So we have this baseline that isn't affected by external circumstances.

However, it can be significantly impacted by internal circumstances.

So we can train to level up that baseline level of happiness.

And I think it's actually a worthwhile endeavor to do so because then, you know, if nothing can really

bother you, if your happiness isn't dependent on what happens around you or to you, it frees up a

tremendous amount of mental energy to devote oneself entirely to being of benefit to others,

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