happiness is complicated [video]

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emma chamberlain

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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[video available on spotify] when i was about 12 years old, i read a quote by john lennon that said “when i went to school, they asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up. i wrote down happy. they told me i didn't understand the assignment, and i told them they didn't understand life.” from that point forward, anytime anyone would ask me, emma, what do you wanna be when you grow up? i would answer happy. and so today i thought we would investigate happiness because it's a word that we use so often, but we rarely take a minute to step back and ask ourselves, what actually is this? how do we truly acquire this feeling? so let's investigate it together today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I read a quote by John Lennon and this quote changed my life. Let me share the quote with you.
0:11.8	John Lennon said when I went to school,
0:14.6	they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
0:17.6	I wrote down happy.
0:20.2	They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life
0:28.0	Whoa that's deep 12 year old me was like, oh shit, oh shit, that's deep.
0:35.0	Now that, that's good.
0:39.0	That's true.
0:41.0	Wow, John Lennon, that's true. Wow. No one's ever said it so clearly like you just did. Wow.
0:49.0	That's life. Life, the pursuit of happiness. Wow, wow, wow, that's deep. And you want to know what I did?
0:58.0	I stole that quote and started to use it as though it was my own.
1:06.7	From that point forward, any time anyone would ask me,
1:09.9	Emma, what do you want to be when you grow up?
1:11.9	I would answer, happy.
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