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Lessons in Happiness, Side Hustles, Self-Care, Productivity, Luck and Business - Season 3 Round Up

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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Higher Expectations Will Make You Happy

If your target is happiness, yeah, that's the way to go. If your target is success and impact on life, however, you need to go to the opposite way. And the opposite way is I need ambition. So when I wrote Sol for Happy at the beginning, I wrote it with the mission of 10 million happy. But then 10 million happy happened very quickly and my team got together and said, maybe we should set a bigger target. We didn't set 100 million. We set a billion happy. Now, a billion happy is a crazy target to have. How many people in the world have reached a billion people? Right. You're stuck between those two extents if

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