You are one of the leading researchers on happiness.

You've been studying happiness for decades now.

So for the majority of this podcast,

what I'd actually like to do is play a game.

The game's called Overrated Underrated.

And what I have is a stack of cards here and on each card is something in life and you're going to tell me is it overrated as it relates to happiness or is it underrated and it's overrated in the sense of a random person on the street likely thinks it's too important or not important enough.

Well, I like this game.

Yeah.

I thought you would. I thought you would.

I thought you would. The podcast that's saving the world, one fewer fuck at a time.

It's the subtle art of not giving a fuck podcast with your host Mark Manson.

Before we start... with your definition of happiness

definition of happiness and is your definition of happiness

than a random person on the street would define it.

So I define happiness the way that happiness scientists define happiness,

which is that happiness has two components.

The first component is basically the experience of positive emotions.

So people are happy frequently or fairly frequently experience joy, tranquility,

pride, affection, curiosity. Of course, happy people experience negative emotions because they're also adaptive.

When you see injustice in the world, you need to be angry so you can do something about it and anxiety is

adaptive and so is sadness. But when negative emotions are chronic or intense, then they become

dysfunctional, then they're just suffering.

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