Audience Q&A: Is Happiness Overrated?
- Author
- Victor Pierantoni
- Published
- Thu 15 Jul 2021
- Episode Link
- https://share.transistor.fm/s/8ef5e055
- We hear people say all the time, “I want to be happy,” or “do what makes you happy.”
- This advice is hardly useful in any practical way because what we think makes us happy is actually an abstraction of actual happiness. Happiness is not a thing you can go and get, it is a state of being, yet most people associate the concept of happiness with an external result or outcome.
- There’s a lot of “I’ll be happy if/when” type of mentality out there.
- You cannot pursue happiness because there is nothing to chase. It's not running from you.
- Imagine a world where we didn’t believe the lie that happiness exists outside of us? What might be possible?
