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#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Happiness Is 50 % Genetic

We live like kings lived a hundred years ago. And we don't have any famines. No one's getting shipped off to war. People listee might say, oh, this guys ought to lunch. He doesn't know what my life is like. I'm just saying it's relatively a lot more abundant and a lot of more easy life stuff than we had even 50 hundred, 200 years ago. The ultimate question re professor david myers at university of michigan has mapped, over the last 50 plus years, our increases in abundance relative to our happiness levels.

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