The Happiness Hoax // SPARTAN MIND 033

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

For better or worse, life is filled with struggle and challenge. We, as humans, were built with a wide emotional range and often experience a variety of feelings, both joyful and painful ones. Nevertheless, we are bombarded with the message that one’s life goals should be a constant state of happiness; that the pursuit of happiness should trump all. The problem with this goes back to that first sentence, life is filled with struggle and challenge. And it’s normal for us to experience hardship. Good for us in fact. But when we have the misbelief that life should always and only be happy we can end up comparing our current position to a false and manufactured ideal.

LESSONS:

The Happiness Hoax: Ascribing to the misbelief that life should be all happy, all the time.
Struggle, challenge, and hardship are a part of life. Stop judging your own position against a false ideal that is impossible to achieve.
Remember, the struggles that you encounter are there for a reason and are no measure of how capable you are of living a fulfilling life.

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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Dr. Lara Pence

Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you're falling into the happiness hoax?
0:03.0	Hey Spartans, Dr L here, your chief mind doc with Spartan mind, part of the Spartan Up Podcast family.
0:14.2	I'm here every Wednesday helping to clear your mind so that you can perform better in the race
0:20.6	course and in the course of life.
0:23.0	Today we're talking about the happiness hoax.
0:26.0	And what I mean by that is when you compare your current realistic life
0:32.0	to an unrealistic sort of sacran happy version right and we all
0:36.7	fall into this trap at any given time you know I should be happier in my job I
0:41.4	should be happier in my relationship I should be happier with my job, I should be happier in my relationship, I should be
0:43.8	happier with life in general, I should be happier with my performance on the
0:47.6	course, right? And one of the ways why this trips us up, one of the reasons why it's difficult for us to move forward
0:56.4	when we're engaging in the happiness hoax is because we sort of get stuck in this
1:00.4	position that life should be better, that life should be happier, and we lose
1:06.6	momentum in moving forward, and we can also end up feeling way worse about our current
1:12.2	position than we actually need to feel. The truth is life
1:15.9	is hard. Life has struggle, life has pain, life has grief, life has conflict and
1:21.6	anger.
1:22.7	That is a part of life, right?
1:25.1	Obstacles are everywhere.
1:27.3	Ask Joe DeSena.
1:29.5	But when we
1:35.0	get into this comparison game with an unrealistic expectation
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