What is happiness?

I think it's just basically being okay with where you are.

Not wanting.

Not wanting things to be different than the way they are, not having the sense that anything is missing in this moment.

If you can observe your own thoughts and view them a little objectively, then you can start being a little more choosy, a little more critical.

And you can realize that there are no problems in the real world other than maybe things that inflict

pain on your body. Everything else has to become a problem in your mind first. You have to view it

and interpret it and create a narrative that it is a problem before it becomes a problem.

And then you realize that a lot of your emotional energy is spent on reacting to things that your mind is automatically saying are problems.

And you don't need all those problems. Do you really need that many problems in your life?

Again, I would say, try to focus on just one overarching problem and then go solve that problem.

If you define pain as physical pain, then it's a real thing. It happens and you can't ignore it.

But that's not what we mean by suffering. Suffering is mostly mental anguish and mental pain.

And it just means you don't want to do the task at hand.

If you are fine doing the task at hand, then you wouldn't be suffering. And then the question is, what's more effective to suffer along the way or just to interpret it in a way that it's not suffering? You hear from a lot of successful people, they look back and they say, oh, the journey was the fun part, right? That was actually the entertaining part, and I should have enjoyed it more. It's a common regret. Just be careful because your

attention is the only thing that you have. You can fidder it away on anything you like. One big

anxiety resolve for me is this rumulating on death. I think that's a good one. You're going to die.

It's all going to zero. If you can keep the idea in front of you at all times that you're going to die and that everything goes literally to zero, what's sort of stress about?

Yeah, for better or worse, life is very short.

How should people deal with its briefness?

Enjoy it.

There's a little thought exercise I like to do do which is you can go back into your own life

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