Timeless Wisdom - The Problem of Happiness - Part 6
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Dennis Prager tackles one of life’s most important—and misunderstood—pursuits: happiness. Drawing on philosophy, religion, and practical life experience, Dennis explores why so many people struggle to be happy, the common barriers that prevent it, and the choices we can make to live more fulfilling lives. Each lecture offers clear, actionable insights that will challenge assumptions, deepen understanding, and provide tools for cultivating lasting happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | welcome to timeless wisdom with dennis prager here thousands of hours of dennis's lectures courses |
| 0:07.0 | and classic radio programs and to purchase dennis prager's rational bibles go to dennis prager dot com |
| 0:13.5 | next obstacle will not is not one that any of you experienced, but I hope you can relate to it on behalf of others. |
| 0:32.2 | Equating happiness with success. |
| 0:40.0 | This is a universal problem, but it is even truer in a competitive place like America, |
| 0:49.7 | the Western world generally, and certainly the United States. |
| 0:55.0 | I will prove to you what a no-win situation that is. |
| 1:03.0 | This will help you immensely. |
| 1:06.0 | And here it is. |
| 1:09.0 | It is a classic no-win situation. There are only two possibilities. You attain |
| 1:18.6 | that success. You don't attain that success. In either case, you're finished. |
| 1:30.2 | If you attain the success that you have equated with happiness |
| 1:34.2 | and find that you're still not happy, |
| 1:38.7 | you're finished. |
| 1:41.4 | There is nothing more frustrating in life than attaining what we thought would bring us happiness |
| 1:47.0 | and find out that it isn't worth, I don't want to use the thing that I'm thinking of, |
| 1:55.0 | a barrel of licorice. Okay? |
| 2:02.3 | Just that is terrible thing. |
| 2:04.6 | On the other hand, |
| 2:06.3 | if you don't attain it, |
| 2:09.3 | you will walk around |
| 2:10.3 | permanently unhappy over not having |
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