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It's interesting to me in the course of my life, different things have happened, that I notice how we deal with the concept of accountability and consequences and how they are extolled or forgotten in common conversation

and in popular culture.

It's a really interesting phenomenon to me because we have a tendency to ignore the idea. Do whatever you want. Damn the consequence. Do what makes you feel

good. Do what gives you gratification. I think gratification is a better word than happiness.

This happiness is a silly word. Nobody's walking around and we're happy. We're all

happy all the time. Just happy. You'd get bored being happy. He would. Jordan Peterson has

really done some important work on this subject.

He's not the first.

He's the first to take it to such a big audience.

And the idea that he has really popularized is that the pursuit of happiness per se

is a fool's errand.

You never actually achieve happiness.

Many people are watching pop culture and they think the Kardashians are happy or Diddy is happy.

Epstein is happier, or Lizzo or whoever else.

And then they're shocked to find out that person isn't happy in this sense that they believe they would be happy, this euphoria,

overcoming you at all time, a warm sensation.

And believe it or not, even though that person is their hero, that person is, they would sell off their kidney to get to go to a concert to just be part of a screaming, teeming, massive people cheering that that person is seeing the song, they've already heard of that, but in the same zip code as them, They're also delighted to learn that those people are usually miserable because they have been on a journey to the destination of happiness.

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