The Happiness Experiment with Carl Barney
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Carl Barney is an educational entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author of The Happiness Experiment, committed to promoting rational, life-serving ideas. His leadership and business strategies are influenced by Aristotle and Ayn Rand's Objectivism, which Carl regards as the philosophy for success and happiness.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Happiness is not a gift - it’s a pursuit. You must define, plan, and chase happiness with the same intention you apply to building a business.
2. Gratitude is born from generosity. When you give meaningfully - whether time, love, or wealth - you generate genuine gratitude and deeper human connection.
3. Create your heaven. Design a happiness vision rooted in your values, dreams, and purpose - and work toward living it every day.
Forget everything you thought you knew about happiness -The Happiness Experiment Book introduces a revolutionary method for creating lasting happiness for yourself and others - The Happiness Experiment Website
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| 0:00.0 | Boom. Shake the room, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by |
| 0:08.0 | high level, the all-on-one sales and marketing platform. Today we'll be breaking down the happiness |
| 0:13.4 | experiments. And to drop these value bombs, I are brought to Carl Barney into EO Fire Studios. |
| 0:18.3 | Carl is an educational entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author of The Happiness Experiment, |
| 0:23.1 | committed to promoting rational, life-serving ideas. |
| 0:26.7 | His leadership and business strategies are influenced by Aristotle and Ein Rann's |
| 0:30.7 | objectivism, which Carl regards as the philosophy for success and happiness. |
| 0:35.9 | Now, we'll talk about defining happiness beyond money, pre-quests and gratitude grants. |
| 0:41.7 | We'll also talk about how happiness can be engineered like a business plan and one action |
| 0:45.9 | that you can take today to start increasing your happiness, Fire Nation, and oh, so much more. |
| 0:51.0 | And a big thing for sponsoring today's episode goes to Carl and our sponsors. |
| 0:56.1 | Fire Nation, this is your year to get unstuck and to grow a successful business. |
| 1:00.7 | Attend the world's highest rated business growth workshop taught personally by Clay Clark |
| 1:04.5 | and now featuring football star Tim Tebow and President Trump's son, Eric Trump, at ThriveTimeshow.com |
| 1:10.2 | slash EO Fire. Again, request life-changing tickets today at ThriveTimeshow.com slash EO. Fire. |
| 1:11.4 | Again, request life-changing tickets today at ThriveTimeshow.com slash EO. Fire. |
| 1:17.8 | Carl, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful |
| 1:23.9 | that most people disagree with. Well, there's two aspects to this and they were personal. |
| 1:29.7 | I believed that making money, becoming rich, was not really very respectable. It wasn't really the way |
| 1:40.0 | you should engage your life. And I changed my mind about that and i became aware that |
| 1:47.4 | making money and being profitable honestly making money was a really good thing not only that i |
| 1:54.0 | would go so far as to say that it's a very high virtue to um create wealth for yourself, |
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