You should patent that . Um Yeah , I think , you know , a lot of us really do outsource our happiness to the world , to other people , to other things , to other places , events , experiences , and most of us eventually , if you live long enough , you begin to see through the illusion and the promise that the world and other people and other things unintentionally , um unwittingly make right to make this promise that they can make you happy . But if you live long enough , you see through that and you realize that the world can do nothing but break that promise over and over again .
Happier in all the relationships , whether they're married or not , they experience less job burnout really . In all ways happiness improves the objective circumstances and conditions of your life . That's incredible .
And what is your book called ? Yeah , it's called Happiness from the Inside Out . Yeah .
And how interesting that people in third world countries that are living on dirt floors and you know , using an outhouse and have no indoor plumbing or showers . They're in many cases happier than people in the first world where we can just hit a button and one day later we can get anything in the world from Amazon . So just it , yeah , it's like , it's consumerism , right ?
And the interesting thing about it is it's perfectly malleable . So the thing about the happiness set point is that unlike height or unlike hair color , which you can't do anything about with your happiness set point , you can actually change it by thinking new thoughts by surrounding yourself with new people , by consuming different information by making happier decisions and choices in your life . And so it's actually am malleable thing if you've ever read any , you know , research around neuroplasticity and neuroscience , you know , that that's absolutely supported by real science .
