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#110 How To Build Lasting Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks
March 24, 20262h 36m · 31,088 words
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Get access to more than 200 episodes of my premium podcast (The Aliquot) when you sign up as a FoundMyFitness Premium Member Most of us are pursuing happiness exactly the wrong way. Overuse of technology is creating a meaning deficit, rewiring our brains away from purpose. In this episode, Dr.
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your satisfaction is all the things that you have divided by what you want. Haves divided by wants. Don't always work the numerator because you'll work yourself to death. You'll become a workaholic, success addicted, self-objectifying creature of the world. You'll ruin your relationships and be frustrated. You need just as much to manage your wants because when you manage the denominator, when your wants go down, your satisfaction rises and stays high.
“Young people today are never bored moment to moment, but their life is grindingly boring.”
“unwelcome change is inevitably where you have your greatest creativity and where there's the most generativity in your life”
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