The Lecture That Started It All: Happiness Is A Serious Problem
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager, Dennis explores the complexities of happiness and what it takes to achieve it. He shares personal anecdotes, including a humorous story about a pediatrist's observation that his feet are suited for speaking, not running. Dennis delves into the idea that our genetic predispositions play a significant role in our happiness, and that comparing ourselves to others is a recipe for unhappiness. He also discusses the importance of gratitude, expectations, and finding meaning in our work.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode of timeless wisdom. |
| 0:02.9 | By the way, I think it's one of the signs you know when you're hitting Middle Ages when you visit a podiatrist. I never went to a podiatrist in my life. But a couple of years ago, my feet started hurting. At any rate, I went to a podiatrist, and it was incredible. You know, I'm sitting above, He's looking at my feet. He's down there. |
| 0:26.1 | He looks up, he goes, Mr. Prager, you were never a track star, were you? |
| 0:30.0 | And I say, that's absolutely right. |
| 0:30.5 | How do you know? |
| 0:33.7 | And then he described my feet as the feet of a speaker. |
| 0:35.9 | It's coming up. |
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| 1:09.5 | Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 1:13.2 | Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, and to purchase Dennis Prager's rational Bibles, go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 1:25.8 | This is an important subject to me. It's the title of the book I'm writing. Happiness is a serious problem. And if you think happiness, serious problem, writing a book on happiness is an even more serious problem. And when you get an advance and you're two years late, it's an extremely serious problem. Those are things I can assure you. |
| 1:47.7 | Well, I really am happy about the subject, as I said, |
| 1:52.4 | and I want to give you a little introduction about how I ever got involved in this. |
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