Notice the Good in Your Life
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Maz Jobrani tries to pay more attention to the good things in his life by writing them down -- and encourages his kids to do the same.
Try this episodes happiness practice: Three Good Things
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| 0:46.0 | The first TV role I got in Hollywood, there was a show called Chicago Hope |
| 0:52.0 | and I actually auditioned to play a security guard |
| 0:56.1 | in a hospital, and there's a disease going around. |
| 0:59.6 | So the doctors want me to lock the doors |
| 1:02.4 | to the hospital so nobody can get in. |
| 1:04.0 | And I had this really good scene with Hector Elizando, where I tell him as a security guard that even though he's the main doctor or whatever of the |
| 1:14.4 | hospital I'm not gonna lock the doors and keep people out of the hospital and then |
| 1:20.0 | they also had quick little establishing shots of me ending up locking the door. |
| 1:27.8 | And I got this part just before my 10-year high school reunion. So when I went to my high school reunion people said hey what |
| 1:35.0 | have you been up to? I said well listen I'm working in an office but I'm also starting to |
| 1:39.0 | pursue my dream and I just got this part on a TV show and if you give me your email address I'll let you know when it's out you can watch it |
| 1:47.0 | When the show was getting ready to air I sent out this mass email going watch for me Thursday night. The bad news is when the episode |
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