psychology is that the mind is the key to being happy. And happy you can define however you want, I don't care how you define it really. It means, what, it means kind of contentment , uh, ease, clarity, um, stability, those are all things we don't have, I don't think. If you're like me, maybe you're not, if you're like me, we don't have those things, ok. In general, our minds are up and down up and down up and down and we're not very clear, most of us are not very clear. And most of us don't even know what the mind is.
Even if they're not my neighbors. In terms of personal contentment , I feel exponentially better about life at the end of October than I did at the beginning. Working on this project allowed me to focus on something other than missing my dog, and prove to me that I can absolutely
Because my goal's to have everybody have the greatest life they can have. I want to maximize joy and contentment in everybody's life. And I want to share with you how I figured it out.
for you will make you feel better at work too. You're not going to find that place of true contentment .
is brought through the fulfillment of material and emotional desires. And no amount of material wealth can bring contentment also. Just think about you take the two richest people in this world.
It was just stillness. And in that stillness was a tremendous amount of peace and contentment . That only lasted a second or two.
And what I found was that the artists that I really revered-- when I looked at their history of their music they never created great music or art or literature during periods of contentment . It was never when things were going well and they were happy and peaceful that their greatest songs were written.
Lumpy and flat from long service under heavier heads, they bear no resemblance to the goose down clouds that many of them enjoyed in childhood. And yet the girls burrow into them with perfect contentment , embracing them like teddy bears. There were no pillows for them in the other barracks.
There is any number of things she could do if she wants to be of benefit to others. If that is what's going to bring her a sense of contentment or happiness in her work, there's so many options available to her. That roadmap seems very joyous to me.
We spend most of our lives in pursuit of material happiness and fulfillment of desires, and yet, after fulfilling many of it we still feel the void and lack of contentment . So as some great people have defined, or tried to define what life is, there's a famous author W.M. Lewis,
So in one sense, what makes us rich is not the amount of material wealth, but what we have is that, as I said from the contentment that gives from the giving and not from what we receive. And how do we practice this in our daily life?
She spends decades striving for this particular role, and it doesn't happen. And I thought this is not a great roadmap for success if we're going to define success as actually finding a sense of happiness or contentment in our work. We can contrast this with Christine.
So it's an important skill to learn since that's what we're always trying to do. Whatever your method is, whether it be money or relationships or meditation or yoga, you're always trying to get to this magical state of contentment , and we really are bad at it.
I can make friends through meditation. You can, make, you can use air support for your meditation become your friends and then I feel very happy. But my happiness is not like-he-he-he, you know, some kind of that style, I mean that kind of happiness, but more like, how to say it, contentment . More like joyful. It's continued, especially when I facing problem that makes me more happy. Everything is good; everything is under control, no problem, no obstacle, no meditation. Mind lost, here and there, but soon as there's a problem, challenge,
threat all-all around us, and that they miss long term things that are actually gonna very consequential. And giving one's self over to one's best purposes is another way to activate the approach system in a context of prior contentment and wisdom.
threat all-all around us, and that they miss long term things that are actually gonna very consequential. In effect, this is in the traditional phrase, "taking a fruit as the path." In other words, taking the end as the means. Taking the end of calm, contentment , and caring are here
A cricket knows when it is loved and it knows when it's well cared for. And it responds in kind with loyalty, courage, obedience, and the signs of quiet contentment . In practical terms, this as quid pro quo, because a happy cricket is amenable to training and as its health, skill, and confidence increase under the trainer's care, so too does its