2026-01-27
6 分钟Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
People have been talking about happiness for, you know, in the last decade,
I feel like I've seen lots of books out there.
There have been other, I guess, happiness educators,
teachers, experts, whatever you want to call it.
Why is this picking up in such with so much steam in lots of different platforms?
One answer is like, nothing's new about this, right?
I mean, Harvard had a class on the science of happiness taught by this guy,
Tal Ben-Shahir, over a decade ago.
Also, Sean Aker, another famous happiness researcher, was part of that class.
And so in some ways, like, every time somebody does this, it kind of goes a little viral.
You know, we've been worried about happiness.
since I think
since we've been human right like basically you know chimpanzees aren't out there worried about happiness but probably we are right you know it's in the Declaration of Independence like Aristotle was talking about eudaimonia back in the day
like it's in some ways this is super not new I think what is new is that a lot of us are focused on this right now
because I think things are pretty good,
you know, like on the internet, there's this idea of like first world problems, right?
And that's the problem that a lot of us face, right?
We feel like, you know, we have food on our table, we have a roof over our head,
we have good jobs and good families, you know, great internet and Netflix, but something's missing.