Happiness. It’s Complicated.

幸福很复杂

Good Life Project

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2016-11-24

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What if the quest to be perpetually happy was actually making us miserable? Who doesn’t want to be happy? Who doesn’t want to laugh all day? It’s a wonderful state, deserving of a powerful seat at the good life table. Happiness has become a hot subject of study over the last two decades, along with […]The post Happiness. It’s Complicated. appeared first on Good LifeProject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Hey, it's Jonathan.

  • So you know how I've been telling you about, oh, that little new book of mine, how to live a good life?

  • Turns out my publisher is now offering the ebook version of it for a limited time for $0.99.

  • Yeah, that's not actually a typo or made up number.

  • It's not going to be that price forever.

  • In fact, not for a super long time.

  • But if you want to get it now, if you've been on the fence and you literally want to spend less than a buck for it, you can go get it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, nook, ibooks and dive into it and hope you enjoy it.

  • So take advantage of this while it is out there.

  • Now onto our show.

  • Hey, it's Jonathan and I'm back with a good life project.

  • Rift today is entitled happiness.

  • It's complicated, so if you also want to see the essay version of this, you can see the print version, you can read it if you like and share it around it is.

  • Posted@jonathanfields.com happiness so here we go.

  • What if the quest to be perpetually happy was actually making us miserable?

  • Summer 2012 2000 miles west of New York City, nearly 9000ft above sea level, deep into the Colorado Rockies.

  • I'm sitting in the wood clad home of soon to be friend, venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and deeply wise and truthful explorer of life Bradfeld, and we're taping a conversation for an episode of Good Life Project.

  • Our goal, Brad offers, speaking about himself and his wife, Amy, is that each of us, individually and together, is to have a happy life.

  • Happy and good mean the same thing.

  • That's it.

  • That's the goal.