Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I want to explore the question with you of whether you really want to be happy. Why aren't you happy in your life? Why aren't you happy in your life?

It's an interesting question.

Do you realize yet that you are not happy in your life?

Have you acknowledged that to yourself? Some people even

hide that fact from them. But hopefully you're aware enough to realize that you're not

happy in your life. Otherwise we wouldn't be here

having this discussion. So the question is why are you not happy? And I want to

submit a pretty crazy possibility to you which is that you simply don't want to be happy.

You actually do not want to be happy.

And that sounds quite twisted, and it would sound like,

well Leo, why would I do that to myself?

Why would I purposefully torture myself like that?

And yeah, that's very interesting.

Let's take a look at that.

Why do you do that to yourself?

Well, let me put it to you this way.

If I ask you the question, do you really want to be unconditionally

happy? Can you honestly say yes to that?

Take this question seriously.

Don't just kind of like say, oh yeah, of course, of course Leo, it's obvious I do. Everyone does. Doesn't everyone?

No, that's not obvious.

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