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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Why Americans Have Given Up The Pursuit Of Happiness

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0

Coming up, I'm going to share what Americans don't understand about the famous classic phrase,

0:10.5

the pursuit of happiness, and then Samsung is making people work six days a week what?

0:15.4

Well discuss it let's go.

0:29.2

Helping you win at work. I'm Ken. This is the Ken Coleman show. You are a pro and so that means you better be winning.

0:34.5

And this is playing for keeps now folks and I want you to

0:38.5

to get in the zone. I want you to be in the seat that you're supposed to be in so that you can

0:48.9

not only find and do the work you're wired to do, but you can live the life that you desire to live and we're going to take on a classic phrase introduced to most Americans in the document we call the Declaration of Independence.

1:02.0

Thomas Jefferson pins in the first sentence. We know how

1:07.2

it goes. If we can remember back to elementary school, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

1:16.2

Okay, so I want to take on that phrase

1:18.9

because I think the pursuit of happiness is misunderstood.

1:27.4

And I'm gonna be very honest with you.

1:30.6

This is, I'm gonna try to make this as general as I can, but I told Alex the producer.

1:35.0

I said, this is a little bit of a deep dive today.

1:40.0

And if you'll just give me two minutes to go deep I'm going to pull us back out of the

1:45.5

depths and it's going to be very practical to you accomplishing what you want to

1:50.6

accomplish in your life but hang with me. All right, so the

1:54.9

phrase of the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Jefferson doesn't come up with it. It's not

1:59.6

his. It's not a turn of phrase that he gets while sitting in Philadelphia

2:04.3

pinning the Declaration of Independence. It was a phrase that had been used

2:09.7

hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years earlier, a that goes very very deep and we're

2:16.2

talking about big names Stoics, philosophers, thinkers from all walks of life people like

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