Prescriptions for a Happy Life - My Talk at AmericaFest 2023 (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_634)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Original link: https://www.amfest.com/gad-saad-full-speech _______________________________________ My book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is now available for order: https://www.amazon.com/Saad-Truth-about-Happiness-Secrets/dp/1684512603 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (December 22, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1645: https://youtu.be/_I3zfc4TgOA _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	You've been a voice for truth, which is a very rare thing, especially in a university setting.
0:05.8	It frustrates me infinitely to see the kind of victimhood narrative that we currently see in the West.
0:11.8	Now it's, am I a bigger victim than both of you?
0:14.8	And if I am, then I win.
0:16.5	Two decades ago I've been warning people that once these type of parasitic ideas take hold
0:21.1	in the universities, it's the end of science.
0:23.2	There's a part of me that's a dogged defender of truth.
0:25.8	Truly believe that less government intervenes in my life the happier I am.
0:29.2	Whatever I see nonsense, I attack it. Wow what a crowd!
0:48.0	What a crowd!
0:50.0	Thank you to Charlie Kirk and the Turning Point gang for having me here.
0:55.1	What energy is unbelievable?
0:57.1	A slight change of maybe pace.
1:00.4	I'd like to talk to you about happiness.
1:02.3	This is probably the number one thing that people say that they'd like to achieve in life
1:07.2	And yet of course the devil is in the details. It's not always easy to know how to reach happiness
1:12.4	People call me the happy warrior It's not always easy to know how to reach happiness.
1:12.8	People call me the happy warrior,
1:15.2	because even when I'm taking on all these difficult topics,
1:17.8	I always seem to have a smile on my face.
1:20.1	So I had the temerity of writing a book on happiness, which is not an easy thing to do because probably the number one topic that philosophers have talked about for several millennia has been how to live the good life.
1:34.0	Now here's the genetic breakdown.
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