Nobody learns how to be happy.

Why are we all pursuing happiness?

Like, it's not something that we can just have now.

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With another episode today now

here's your host brian lubin and i learned many other lessons writing this book but another

lesson a fifth lesson that i learned was that the gain is ultimately how you make progress as a person.

It's only by measuring your own gains that you can start truly making progress. So as Dan Sullivan

would say it, the gain is where you measure yourself backwards against where you were before.

The gap is when you're measuring yourself against some ideal in your mind or some reference point

that's outside of yourself.

And people who are measuring themselves in the gap are never happy because they're pursuing happiness. They're seeking happiness outside of themselves. And we live in an American-driven

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