The Secret To Happiness, How To Make The Right Decisions In Life From Romantic Partners To What You Eat For Breakfast
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3.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This is not an overstatement: Listening to this episode could change your life. We go over an essay this week from the New York Times from a Nobel winning psychologist who believed he found the secret to happiness! It’s all about HOW we make decisions and what we do after we make them. There’s science, math and logic behind the theory and the best part, it’s something all of us can begin to apply to our lives today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.2 | It is Saturday, May 16th, and the secret to happiness has been found. |
| 0:14.3 | And it boils down to this. |
| 0:17.5 | Are you a maximizer or a satisfacer? |
| 0:22.6 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, the secret to happenness has been discovered. I am 100% a believer in what they have figured out. Robs, I love this. I'm not overselling. I think this is it. Wow. And I actually, full disclosure here, you asked me not to read the article because you wanted to have a little fun with this. And I'll be learning along with all of you listeners what the secret to happiness is and what those words were that he just said, what they mean maximmeister and status. Meister, yes. What was it? I can't even repeat what you said. A maximizer. A maximizer. Or a satisficer. Okay. Satisficer. That's where I got Meister. I was confused. That is fiser. Soficer is a combination of these two words. |
| 1:31.5 | Satisfy and suffice. A satiscer. We will get into and explain. But this came to us. This come from Sam as well, our producer? No, I found this actually. Just this week, I actually saw a headline that said, Secret to Happiness. And I thought, hmm, this could be good. And so I just, you know, you just copy and paste and stored this article away, but I didn't actually read it. |
| 1:32.8 | I saved it for a rainy day. |
| 1:34.7 | You actually clicked on it. |
| 1:35.7 | I did. |
| 1:39.1 | I went so deep into a dive on this thing because you do see a lot of stuff. |
| 1:40.5 | That's clickbait. |
| 1:41.5 | Secret of Happiness. |
| 1:44.3 | Key to Living Lawner has been discovered.. Secret of happiness. Key to Living Lawner has been discovered. |
| 1:45.2 | All kinds of stuff. |
| 1:46.5 | And you click and it's just some BS. |
| 1:46.8 | Correct. |
| 1:47.8 | This was not BS. |
| 1:56.9 | So the article you found, it was from the New York Times and it was titled the Nobel winning psychologist who believed he found the secret to success. |
| 2:01.0 | It was written by an author by the name of David Epstein, who was doing a guest essay. |
| 2:06.4 | Before we get into it all, let me give you this bottom line, Robes, to Secret to Happiness. |
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