🤗 Happiness (S05E13) + Transcript
IELTS Speaking for Success
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🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Roy, you look very happy today. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm very happy. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm on Cloud 9. |
| 0:09.8 | Oh, shall we talk about happiness? |
| 0:12.3 | Yes, it's another coincidence. |
| 0:14.7 | Yeah, we are continuing coincidences on this podcast. |
| 0:18.3 | Yes, dear listener, in speaking part one, they can ask you questions about |
| 0:21.9 | happiness. |
| 0:26.6 | Rory, how would you define happiness? Well, there are two parts to it in my view. The first is |
| 0:32.9 | an absence or relatively lower level of ill feeling and the second is an abundance or a relatively |
| 0:39.0 | higher level of positive emotions about a situation. I think you need both to be truly happy. |
| 0:44.9 | What usually makes you happy? Snuggles? No, seriously. When I stop working for a second and |
| 0:51.1 | reflect on my life and how far I've come and everything I've achieved and all of the great things that are happening right now. I can't, I almost can't |
| 0:58.8 | describe the feeling of exhilaration that I feel. And then when I get to enjoy the benefits, |
| 1:03.9 | like the ability to sleep in on a Saturday morning, not today when we're recording, but usually. |
| 1:09.7 | And then I get to help people all over the world. |
| 1:12.4 | It's bliss. I love it. |
| 1:15.1 | What would you do to make you happy? |
| 1:18.0 | Well, I'm already quite happy. |
| 1:19.8 | So it becomes a case of how to maintain that, which isn't very difficult. |
| 1:24.1 | It's things like avoiding difficult situations. |
| 1:26.8 | And I have enough life experience to foresee potential problems. It's almost like avoiding difficult situations and I have enough life experience to |
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