Moment 115: 3 Happiness Pillars Everyone Needs To Know: Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In this moment, the physician, presenter, and podcaster Dr Rangan Chatterjee discusses what happiness REALLY is. Too often we chase after the emotion happiness itself, when actually it is a byproduct that comes from doing the right things. For Dr Chatterjee there are 3 core pillars of happiness, these are: alignment, contentment and control. These foundations are the difference between real happiness and pleasurable experiences, and a happiness that works for you compared what society tells you is happiness. Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/DmC3uNmKMsb Dr Rangan: https://www.instagram.com/drchatterjee/?hl=en https://drchatterjee.com Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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0:00.0	I heard your conversation with Moe in the hotel room last night, which was fantastic,
0:08.5	so good.
0:10.0	And I agree with what you were in moments saying happiness is a choice when you want to
0:16.3	understand what happiness really is.
0:18.9	What is it?
0:20.1	It's not a thing that you can get to.
0:25.2	It's not something that you can pursue directly.
0:29.0	It's something that ensues when you do the right things.
0:34.8	And the right things for me are when you focus on the three, I call core happiness as
0:42.5	three-legged stool, alignment, contentment, control.
0:46.0	You can apply it to anything in life.
0:48.1	I think that's what happiness is.
0:50.0	And I think we are pursuing it.
0:51.8	People say we shouldn't be going after happiness.
0:54.6	We should be going after meaning.
0:56.1	Have you heard that?
0:57.5	Yeah, all the time.
0:58.7	Right.
0:59.7	I have a different perspective.
1:03.3	Meaning and purpose is really important, no question.
1:08.7	But I don't think that's happiness.
1:10.0	It's meaning.
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