No. 1 Happiness Expert: If Your Friends Get Divorced So Will You! Single Friends Will Keep You Single! Obesity Is Contagious

I take the same test year by year, and I am 60% happier than I was five years ago because I finally cracked the code. Okay, so Arthur Brooks. The world renowned social scientists. Harvard Professor and best-selling author who teaches people how to live a better, happier life. I've studied the science of happiness and I found that most of what society tells us is wrong. And we will go into all of this. For example, they found that happiness is about fifty percent genetic. Introverts tend to have more long term happiness. And happiness is a mind virus. It will transmit from one person to another person to another person. Really? Yeah. They were looking at the trajectory of people's lives, measuring everything for many years, and they found obesity is contagious when your friend get divorced you're more likely to get divorced. But also when your friends get happy, you're more likely to get happy.

The problem is happiness has been in decline since about 1990. One of the reasons is that we need struggle and suffering for us to actually get the joy that we seek. But we know that, for example, 95% of dyes fail is the most unsuccessful industry in the world because the arrival fallacy that when I actually get rid of the belly fat, then I'm actually gonna have a more wonderful life. That's actually not a good thing. Not true. You actually get more satisfaction from the progress. Okay, so if not a weight number or a financial number, what's a better, more realistic goal to set that has more chance of success to being happier. There are goals that actually do lead to the happiest life, and the more you have, the better off you are. The four goals that really matter. Are Uh

D. What do you do? I am dedicated to lifting people up and bringing them together. Using the science.

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