The Power of Curious Thinking

I think part of what you're saying is that we have some inherited ideas of happiness, cultural ideas, or that we've picked up from friends or parents. And so I think what an amazing capability we have to actually step back a little bit and get curious, you know, like take a look. The most obvious example that comes to my mind of sort of a socially inherited idea of happiness would have to do with material wealth or success. Are there other examples you think of of the ways people can be misled into what they think will make them happy? Endless consumption is one for sure, and endless accumulation. That somehow the more stuff we have, it serves as a kind of totem against