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Well, you gotta hate on being happy. Yeah, right, exactly. But don't happy be worried is the theme. Kind of, sort of a really interesting study that's out. Researchers from the University of Toronto Scarborough and University of Sydney, the Canuckers joining up with the Australians. Trump will be, you know, annexing them both soon. But anyway, for now we'll let them have their cute little universities. But they, they write, we live in a happiness obsessed world. Self help gurus promise paths to bliss. Instagram influencers pedal happiness as a lifestyle, and corporations build marketing campaigns around the pursuit of positive emotions. But new research suggests a surprising twist. I doubt I'm surprising if you're not familiar. Yeah, exactly. Trying too hard to be happy might make you miserable. Researchers at the aforementioned universities found that actively pursuing happiness drains our mental energy, the same energy we need for self control. Among other things, says the researcher, the pursuit of happiness is a bit like a snowball effect. You decide to try making yourself happier, but then that effort depletes your ability to do the kinds of things that actually make you happier. Right. Well, there is the key right there. What kind of things actually make you happy? So, among my favorite books I've ever read in my life, the Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama, which he says, your goal every morning when you wake up should be to make yourself happy. You should spend all your time trying to make yourself happy. That's what you should do. But it gets down to the data on what makes you happy and what doesn't. And many, many of the things we all do every single day don't make us happy. They've never made us happy. We have ample evidence from our own experience, let alone other people's experience, that it doesn't make us happy. Yet we continue doing it, like eating bad food or buying stuff or promiscuous sex or whatever it is, it has never made us happy. It doesn't make other people happy. Yet we keep thinking that's what's going to make us happy. So pursuing happiness Every day is okay. You just need to define what makes people actually makes people happy. Maybe this is the key. Pleasure is not happiness. Fun is not happiness. Right. It can be part of it. Very seldom though. Life of purpose is what makes people happy. Yeah, yeah. Happy, Happy. You wake up determined to have a great day. You plan mood boosting activities and work hard to stay positive. But by evening, you're ordering takeout instead of cooking, mindlessly scrolling social media and snapping at your partner. Why? Your pursuit of happiness might be the problem. The scientist marketing professor puts it bluntly, quote, the more mentally run down we are, the more tempted we'll be to skip cleaning the house and instead scroll social media. They're saying the same thing as the Dalai Lama says. I just, I like the way he words it. It's a little more positive. Pursue happiness all day, every day. That should be your goal in life. That should be everybody's goal. But now let's break down what actually makes people happy as opposed to saying, don't pursue happiness. Because then it seems like it's a gotta eat my vegetables, gotta, you know, all negative stuff and maybe there'll be a payoff in the end. Right. It's like the difference between pursuing money and pursuing the skills that will make you money in a way. Katie, do you have something you want to jump in with? You look thoughtful. I. I'm kind of overthinking this, I think. Okay. Be honest. Well, it's. It's amazing that human beings do things that make themselves unhappy all the time. All the time. It's just. It's just like one of the most common things we do is make do things that make us unhappy. Eat stuff that's going to make us either feel bad in the moment or make us feel bad long term or, you know, pursue relationships that we know aren't good. But there's either sex, prestige, whatever that makes you do it. Just. We regularly chase things that we know are bad for us. Right, Right. My brain was going with like, things you don't want to do, but the payoff in the end is good. Oh. The simplest one is the staring at your phone. Nobody ever at the end of the day says, I'm sure glad I spent that much time scrolling on my phone. Nobody ever, not even for one day. Right? Right. I was just going to contrast doom scrolling on Twitter, which I have the compulsion to do, and I resist pretty well most times versus the other day. I mean, this is as mundane as can be. I cleaned out my closet. I went through it, thinned the herd of clothing, you know, shoes I don't wear, etc. It's neater, it's better organized, it's just. It's better. And that made me happy. Right? Like, happy. Yeah. Like today it was not pleasurable. I would love to lay on my couch all day, but I know I have laundry to do and when I get it done, I'm gonna be happy that it's done. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I was just reading an obituary of a fella that I barely knew. And it was post retirement, I'm pretty sure, but he filled his life with the Boys and Girls club of the area where he lived and was really pivotal in guiding them through difficult financial times and growing the programs and stuff like that. I'll bet there was very little of that that was pleasurable. Some of it was because watching kids learn and grow is immensely satisfying. But there's a hell of a lot of work there, and I guarantee that made him happy to his soul. I think the best happiness comes from accomplishments. It could be like mowing the grass, like you're pushing the mower and you look back and you see what you've done. And then when you're all finished, you look and you think, hey, I'm really feeling happy. So why, why, why then evolutionary speaking, why are we. Is our body screaming out to now mow the lawn tomorrow, lay on. On the couch watching this football games. What it's going to make me happy. Even though you're absolutely right afterwards, I think, why did I watch? I don't even care about these two teams. As opposed to you'll feel happy after you mold along. Well, the greatest minds of our time are devoted toward getting you to do things for pleasure, for their. In a way that didn't exist. I mean, even 200 years ago there was advertisement, but it was not nearly as effective, manipulative and scientifically based as modern. You know, like, like Facebook. Tick tock. My God. We, we as a species don't stand a chance against that sort of neurological manipulation. Yeah, I've noticed recently, I don't know if my. I just. I guess I just started doing the Instagram reels thing. I'd never done it. New fourth. It's kind of the American version of TikTok, I guess. Anyway, what's disappointing to me is it's not like doom scrolling or something where I think, why did I do that? Or it's pretty good. It's pretty enjoyable. It feeds me lots of stuff I really like. I mean, like, really like, here's Some rare concert footage that it figured out I'd be into that I've never seen before and stuff like that. But it kills a freaking hour where I should either been sleeping or exercising or whatever. So it's actually, it's actually enjoyable, like really enjoyable in the time. So that's what I gotta fight now is not even start. I am going to further parse language. You got pleasure, you got happiness. And Michael, to your point, you have satisfaction. Maybe that's another word to think about. Happiness and satisfaction as opposed to pleasure. If you don't, let's say you're retired and you don't really need to accomplish anything. That's when it's the most important, according to everybody I've talked to, to have some purpose. You don't think you could just look at Instagram reels feeding you stuff that you actually enjoy and be okay? Or would you be miserable? You'll be dead soon? I don't know. I can't state that, you know, with confidence, but that's. I've read a fair amount about retirement, which is funny because I don't know, probably like my job too much. But yeah, if you're the sort of person who just retires and you have nothing to do, it makes people miserable. But you do. I mean, even if you have things to do, you have TikTok. You have something to do. And the golf course. I just play golf. I look at TikTok, I wake up in the morning, I go play golf again. Then I Look at TikTok. Yeah, this is Jenny Garth from I Do Part 2. If you could lose 10.4 pounds in one month, would you try With Future Health you can. Future Health gives millions access to affordable weight loss meds for less than three bucks a day. 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But one gift that I got somehow or other and this may shock you folks, I used to take walks on the wild side now and again. Not in the Lou Reed sense, not gender bending madness, but you know, occasionally in the rock and roll world of the 80s and 90s, there were substances about. And there are a couple of experiences I had where I thought, nope, I like this too much. Yeah. And so it is with the tickety talk. From what I've heard, you realize I am powerless against this. Yeah, it is like an endless. They provide you endless entertainment on there. Especially when they figure out what you like. I mean you could do that for hours. That's that. I wonder if that' what happened. I wonder if I spent enough time on Instagram that it was able to. Okay, now we know we got him figured out because it just seems like in the last week or so it's like really grabbed me. Well, and what, what sucks about that is because I thought I. I'm a dumbass. I thought I could outsmart the algorithm because I thought maybe if I don't interact with any posts, you know, I don't like any. I don't interact with any of them. But it picks up your eyeballs or no, it picks up your watch time. So if you spit. So like let's say you're scrolling, you stop on a video and you spend the time to watch that video. The algorithm goes, okay, we kept him here for such and such a second. So he's into that because I didn't click on it. I didn't do anything. It was just part of a stream. It's just because you watched it. I am going to re watch on YouTube the Social Dilemma. The famous so good documentary. Jack, you gotta Watch that. You got it. You just gotta. Can they put it in 20 second chunks on a Instagram reel? Jeez, we can't save him. I was like, I had one more thing to say about this. Just. I don't know how good it is at figuring out stuff that you really, really like. It's. It's troubling, actually. And there's stuff that it would have been hard for me to find, like, on my own. Oh, I was. I was thinking about. They fixed what used to be. I don't know if you're old enough for this or not, Katie. You probably are back when you used to. You want something, you sit down, you think, how do I have 120 channels and there's nothing I like here? You click through and there's nothing you like. They fix that. It's the opposite now. You like every single thing on every channel. They. They. They know exactly what you're into. They got your sports thing, your music thing, your kids thing. You're just. Every. Every channel is something you love as you click through. It's the exact opposite of what it used to be. Right? Leggy blonde guitar players playing golf, constant videos, sexy golfing guitarists giving me lessons. With a dog doing something funny and a kid doing something cute. Yes. Yes. See if you guys agree with this. False happiness comes immediately. Real happiness comes later. 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