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Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

So I have come up with some profound wisdom that I want to share with you here this morning.

It is an answer to an age-old question, one that philosophers,

gurus, scholars, sages, poets, novelists, and theorists

have been pondering and pontificating about

since the beginning of pondering and pontificating.

And that is, what does it mean to live a good life?

Well, the field of psychology has previously produced two concepts on what is called the good life. One is a happy life, often referred to as

a hedonic well-being. In other words, doing stuff that makes you happy just because

it makes you happy. A happy life as it's called is a life full of

stability, pleasure, enjoyment, and positive emotions. The second is what's called

a meaningful life, often referred to as a eudemonic well-being.

This is living a purpose-driven life, one of virtue, devotion, service, sacrifice,

and in the pursuit of human excellence.

But in recent years, a long-neglected version of the good life has been receiving

greater research attention. It is called the psychologically rich life.

Now, the psychologically rich life is a full complex mental engagement,

a wide range of intense and deep emotions, and diverse, novel, and surprising

and interesting experiences.

Sometimes the experiences are pleasant, sometimes they are meaningful, and sometimes they

are neither pleasant nor meaningful, however they are meaningful, and sometimes they are neither pleasant nor meaningful, however, they are

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