UNCHURCHED EP 45 - The Happiness Illusion...
Salt Strong Fishing
Joe Simonds
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe shares some hard-hitting stories revealing that chasing happiness the way society seems to be teaching us can be a frustrating and dangerous slope. Joe shares some real-life stories along with his own personal struggles to find more joy, hope, and fulfillment in his life. If you've ever felt there must be more to life, then you don't want to miss this!
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| 0:00.0 | This fish and it's in my soul. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it. |
| 0:11.0 | Prepare to laugh. |
| 0:12.0 | Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way. |
| 0:17.0 | And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing. |
| 0:20.0 | Here's your host, Joe Simons. |
| 0:23.0 | Like Diamonds. |
| 0:25.0 | The Happiness Illusion. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey everybody, Joe Simons. |
| 0:29.0 | Like Diamonds. |
| 0:30.0 | We are back. |
| 0:31.0 | Salt Strong, Unchurch. |
| 0:32.0 | Talking about this illusion with happiness and why I believe after all these books I've read |
| 0:39.0 | I'm constantly reading the books on the tape that are really cool in here today that one of the biggest issues |
| 0:44.0 | that we're facing as a society's individuals is this constant chasing of happiness. |
| 0:51.0 | I wrote a whole book about it called Fishing for Happiness, right? |
| 0:54.0 | And if you guys haven't read it, you can kind of put two and two together, right? |
| 0:59.0 | Instead of catching happiness, which is ultimately fulfillment, you are fishing for happiness. |
| 1:04.0 | It's constant. |
| 1:05.0 | I did it for the majority of my life, right? |
| 1:07.0 | And what I mean by chasing happiness is chasing the money, chasing these dreams that we believe are going to make us happy. |
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