The Real Reason You’re Lazy, Unmotivated & Unhappy | Dr. Rangan Chatterjee (Fan Fav)

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This is a fan fav episode. When you are unhappy, you may find yourself constantly seeking approval from others, scared to take risks, and hyper focused on the things you don’t have or lack in life. You may unconsciously have habits that are keeping you from being happy, and after this episode you know what you can do to start living with more happiness and intention. Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is a physician that focuses on successfully treating illness with progressive medicine while taking a 360 approach to health. He’s written multiple books on how to feel better, lose weight, better manage stress and live a happy life. In this episode he’s sharing practical things you can do right now to stop living an unhappy life. ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 6-21-22 Happiness is a skill we can improve and get better at. It doesn’t have to be overly complicated, and it is super critical to your outlook on life, your relationships, and the state of your overall health. Struggling with health and happiness and not seeing the connection between the two is a mistake we’ve all made for too long. Let’s get practical and answer these simple questions and thought exercises today: *What are 3 things you could do this week that would truly make you happy and content? *What are 3 things you would wish you have done on your deathbed and regret not doing? *Think about the values that encompass who you are and write them down. Deciding to live with intention and making the conscious decisions you need to make in order to live a better, happier, and healthier life is free, and it’s the most valuable thing you can do right now for you and the people you love. Check out Dr. Chatterjee’s latest book, Happy Mind, Happy Life: https://amzn.to/39ytbbu SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction Dr Rangan Chatterjee 0:23 | Why You’re Not Happy 7:55 | How To Live In Alignment 26:35 | Gain Perspective Today 41:52 | Take Control of Your Life 48:14 | Will You Regret Your Choices 55:41 | Create Happy Habits What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: If you want my help... STARTING a business: join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER SCALING a business: see if you qualify here. Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox: sign up here. ********************************************************************** If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast, Tom Bilyeu’s Mindset Playbook —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. ********************************************************************** Join me live on my Twitch stream. I'm live daily from 6:30 to 8:30 am PT at www.twitch.tv/tombilyeu ********************************************************************** LISTEN TO IMPACT THEORY AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/impacttheory ********************************************************************** FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A lot of us don't know what life we're wanting to live.
0:04.5	Right, a lot of us are living unintentional lives where we're essentially asleep.
0:08.5	More and more people are struggling with their health,
0:10.5	more and more people are struggling with their happiness,
0:12.7	and they don't realize that those two things are actually very, very strongly linked.
0:27.8	Rangan, so many people today are even people that have a massive amount of success are profoundly unhappy.
0:29.9	And what I want to do in our time together is figure out why people are so unhappy and
0:33.9	what exactly they can do about it.
0:39.3	You're right, Tom. So many people these days are struggling.
0:41.3	We're living in that time, aren't we, where there's so much wealth.
0:45.3	We have so many things.
0:47.3	We have so much technology, yet society is getting sicker.
0:51.3	More and more people are struggling with their health.
0:53.3	More and more people are struggling with their health, more and more people are
0:54.1	struggling with their happiness. And they don't realize that those two things are actually very,
0:58.8	very strongly linked. You know, I've been a medical doctor Tom for almost 21 years now, right? I've
1:05.5	seen tens of thousands of patients. And it's really only in the last few years I've studied and seen that there is a very,
1:12.8	very strong link between happiness and health.
1:17.9	And you know that question, why are so many people unhappy?
1:22.6	I think the simplest way to answer that is because people don't understand that happiness is a skill.
1:32.7	It's a skill that we can practice, we can develop, we can get better at that skill once we know what to work on.
1:40.8	And I've got to tell you, I never learned that skill.
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