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Find Happiness in Your Melancholy | Susan Cain

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

CHAPTER

The Longing Side of Happiness

I'm not at all anti happy, like, i love to be happy. I think it's worthy goal. What what i'm saying is more that em that there is a deeper form of happiness than the just smiley one. We are creatures who come into this world with a sense of a longing for a more perfect and beautifulwr That we kind of feel like is always im at a distance. This is why the narrative of so many of our religions is like, you know, over there is the garden of eden. And im gong to reach for that state that's the human experience.

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