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WHAT IS HAPPINESS
Akira the Don
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This is for those overloaded words
That means different things to different people
So I'm not even sure we're communicating the same language
But, uh (Akira)
What is happiness?
What is happiness?
I think it's just basically being okay with where you are
Not wanting things to be different than the way they are
Not having the sense that anything is missing in this moment
Ironically, I think most people if you were to ask them
When they were happiest for a sustained period of time
Not for a brief moment, because pleasure can override happiness
And create kind of this illusion of happiness
But if you ask people when they were happy for a sustained period of time
They were probably doing some variation of nothing
But then you get bored
What is happiness?
Tell me what it is
Tell me what it is
What is happiness?
Tell me what it is
Tell me what it is
If you just sit around all the time you get bored
So you want adventure, you want surprise
Like there's the funny thought experiment of the bliss machine
Suppose I could drill a hole in your head and put an electrode in
Put a wire in there and it can stimulate just the right part of your brain
And I can put you in bliss, you'll just be in bliss
Would you want that?
Most people will say "Well, I don't want that, I want meaning"
"I don't want just bliss I want meaning"
You're like, "Okay, well, I'll put an electrode in there and I'll give you meaning
How about that?"
If you kind of run this thought experiment long enough
I think most people realize "Actually, what I want is, I want surprise
I want the world to surprise me and I want to wrestle with it
In ways that are somewhat predictable but somewhat not"
Kinda end up back where you started
What is happiness?
Tell me what it is
Tell me what it is
What is happiness?
Tell me what it is
Tell me what it is
For some people, pure happiness is the ultimate goal
They wanna just be blissfully happy wherever they are, whenever they are
But I think other people, most people would say
"Well, I'm here in this world, I'm here in this life
I don't understand it or why
But I want to be, I wanna be engaged
I wanna be surprised, I want to do things
I wanna accomplish things
To want things and then get them"
That's kind of the whole game that we're all playing here
If nothing worked out the way you expected
It was all serendipity and you didn't want that
You would just be a ball of anxiety
On the other hand, if everything worked out as you expected and wanted
You'd be so bored, you might as well be dead
So there's some
The river of life kind of flows through these two banks
And enjoy it
What is happiness?
Tell me what it is
Tell me what it is
What is happiness?
Tell me what it is
Tell me what it is
What is happiness?
Tell me what it is
Tell me what it is
What is happiness?
Tell me what it is
Tell me what it is
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