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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

So I have come up with some profound wisdom that I want to share with you here this morning.

It is an answer to an age-old question,

one that philosophers, gurus, scholars, sages, poets, novelists, and theorists have been

pondering and pontificating about since the beginning of pondering and pontificating. And that is,

what does it mean to live a good life? Well, the field of psychology has previously produced two concepts on what is called the good life.

One is a happy life, often referred to as a hedonic well-being.

In other words, doing stuff that makes you happy, just because it makes you happy.

A happy life, as it's called, is a life full of stability, pleasure, enjoyment, and positive

emotions.

The second is what's called a meaningful life, often referred to as a eudamonic well-being.

This is living a purpose-driven life, one of virtue, devotion, service, sacrifice, and in the pursuit of

human excellence. But in recent years, a long-neglected version of the good life has been

receiving greater research attention. It is called the psychologically rich life. Now, the psychologically

rich life is a full complex mental engagement,

a wide range of intense and deep emotions and diverse, novel, and surprising and interesting experiences.

Sometimes the experiences are pleasant, sometimes they are meaningful, and sometimes they are

neither pleasant nor meaningful. However, they are

rarely boring or monotonous. Both happy and meaningful lives can become monotonous as well as repetitive.

A person with a steady office job, married with children, may be generally happy with their

life and still be bored out of their skull.

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