Episode Details

Where is happiness, exactly? Try to point at it. It is not up at the high moments and it is not the thing you are chasing. It sits on the ordinary line in the middle.

The peaks give you endorphins and you cannot stay there. The millionaire wants two million and the billionaire wants two billion, because we keep thinking the next level up is where it lives. It is not a place you get to. Pay attention to the mundane line instead, the normal one, because that is where you actually are happy.

One thing to try: Take one breath and listen to what is around you. That is the centre line, and you are already on it.

In this episode

• (0:00) Point at happiness. Where is it right now?
• (2:50) Likes, and what we started wanting instead
• (4:27) The centre line, and what we might call the mundane
• (6:30) The pleasures, the endorphins, and why we cannot stay there
• (9:06) Why the normal line is where the happiness actually is
• (11:14) You cannot pinpoint it. It is not somewhere to get to
• (13:09) The millionaire who wants two million

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