Your Guide To Achieving Happiness | Arthur Brooks

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Darin Olien

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What is happiness?

So many of us go through life searching for happiness, but avoiding our unhappiness. What if happiness comes from leaning into our suffering and trauma? After all, when you avoid your unhappiness, you’re essentially avoiding your ability to be happy. Professor and author of the book 'From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life', explains why we need to use our post-traumatic growth to find happiness in life.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to Show. This is Darren O'Lean. This is the Darren O'Lean Show.
0:10.0	I appreciate you. I celebrate you and I want nothing but the best for you and your heart
0:20.9	and your soul. And I want you to want it so bad for yourself. Your whole life changes if
0:29.9	it needs to change and redirects itself towards the amazing, infinite, powerful, potentiality
0:39.9	that exists in every moment. Life is happening right now, not from the past, not from the future.
0:49.3	It's now, man. It's now. And I too, full victim of, oh, this happened. And what's the future
0:56.3	going to be? And I am all the time. I'm outside under a 300-year-old oak tree, staring at the
1:04.3	mountains with wildlife running around, breath in my lungs, words coming out of my mouth,
1:12.3	staring at my two dogs next to me. Life is amazing, but we don't focus on the amazing. We're focused
1:21.3	on our monkey minds, making up all the stories about who we are, what we are, where we're going,
1:28.3	what's going to happen, what's not going to happen, how the hell are we supposed to be happy in all
1:33.3	of that crap? This wasn't necessarily planned for this intro, but it was inspired because of this
1:40.3	guy, because he is the happy columnist of the Atlantic. He's a professor at Harvard Kennedy School
1:49.3	and Harvard Business School, and he teaches courses on leadership and happiness. Oh, thank God. We're
1:59.3	actually starting to teach what real leadership is leading your life. And what happiness is because
2:08.3	in some weird twisted reality that we created and kept going, we said, hey, do all this,
2:16.3	make a bunch of money, follow what my parents say, you're supposed to do this and this, and you're
2:23.3	going to be happy and be a doctor and be a lawyer and be a whatever. And we come to find out
2:29.3	we're running down the path of someone else's. We're not happy. Arthur and I had an amazing
2:36.3	conversation. I just had a blast talking to this guy. He is so knowledgeable. Some of the books,
2:44.3	he wrote, some of them, gross national happiness. We didn't even talk about that. Gross national
2:50.3	happiness was something I explored in Bhutan in 2007. He wrote another book called The Road to Freedom,
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