Happiness Equation: U = I - R

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🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Is there an equation that can accurately predict how happy you will be? There is. Can you control the inputs of that equation, and thus your own happiness? You can. How? Dennis Prager, author of the best-selling book, "Happiness is a Serious Problem", explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, everybody wants to be happy.
0:02.1	So why isn't everybody happy?
0:03.7	The obvious answer is it's not easy.
0:06.5	And one of the single biggest obstacles to being happy
0:10.1	is that people naturally compare themselves to other people
0:14.1	and assume nearly all of them are happier than they are.
0:18.9	This is a big problem.
0:21.6	So how would you like an equation
0:24.5	to determine the exact amount of unhappiness in your life?
0:29.2	Well, I am here to tell you that I have developed an equation.
0:32.9	It is you equals I minus R.
0:37.1	You is unhappiness, I is image, and R is reality.
0:42.8	The difference between the images you have had for your life
0:47.1	and the reality of your life is the amount of unhappiness
0:51.2	in your life, which gives you an idea of how powerful
0:55.2	images are in hurting us.
0:58.3	It's inevitable.
0:59.2	Everybody has an image.
1:00.7	As you grow up, you imagine what life will be
1:03.0	when you get older.
1:04.5	I have very, very powerful images if I may be personal
1:08.5	and it'll help here to be personal
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