The Power of Expressing Your Deepest Emotions
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
He started Afghanistan's first post-Taliban rock band when he was 18 years old. A decade later, our Happiness Guinea Pig takes on another challenge: writing about his emotions.
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| 0:44.0 | So when I moved back to Afghanistan when I was 17 I was looking for people to make a band |
| 0:51.0 | and to play music with me and I met much |
| 0:53.0 | Tabbah our ex- drummer and Sadiq our best player and then we decided what if we |
| 0:57.9 | play a show on the street and maybe to play on the street that a lot of |
| 1:01.7 | explosion happened and then we decided to do a street concert. |
| 1:05.3 | Today you must say because I may die I am on the way and you're about to cry |
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| 1:18.0 | We decided to play on there's an area called Shara now in Kabul. |
| 1:22.0 | It's called New City. |
| 1:22.8 | It's sort of downtown, and the explosion happened frequently in that area. |
| 1:27.0 | We were scared because you play on the street, everybody can watch you. |
| 1:32.0 | We went up there, we set up our music instruments on the street, everybody can watch you. We went up there, we set up our music instruments on the street |
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