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Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds.

Happiness intervention.

Hey, everybody, Joe Simons, like diamonds.

Happy is can be to be here with you talking about happiness.

This entire episode is about happiness, how to get more happiness, the science behind happiness.

And I am really, really happy right now because everything I've been talking about in trying to prove my own life,

I just got a lot of reinforcement that it was true based on real science.

And so got back from an event where I got to hear a bunch of great

speakers. And one of them, he's named Sean Aker. And he wrote a book called The Happiness

Advantage, The Happiness Advantage. It's a book I've already read in the past. It's very impactful.

And he's from Harvard, just one of those crazy smart people.

I mean, he spoke for two hours and just didn't even take a breath.

He just has so much information and so much content.

It's all based on science, meaning he likes to back up everything as more like a scientist

and has written all kinds of books and has submitted all kinds of things,

you know, from, from his studies that, you know, now doctors and psychiatrists are reading

and has done it all over the place. And so I'm going to share some of the things that I got

out of that. But first, let me ask you, how is your smile game? How's your smile game? Is your smile good? You smile a lot? You bad, indifferent, okay, amazing. So he started off this conference, and you know, we're in a room, a couple hundred people there. And he's like, I want you to find the person next to you. Doesn't matter if it's guy, girl, whatever, find the person next to you, and we're going to do a little experiment. I'd love for you to do this after this podcast is over and try it out yourself. And he goes, I'm going to have a little stopwatch here, and I'm going to go for 10 seconds. And person A, he's like, everyone raise your hand. If you're person A, just one of the two of you pick it, it's not good or bad and different.

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