What’s the Point of Happiness, Anyway?, with Dr. Bill Von Hippel
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Is There a Way to Channel Success to Buy Happiness?
The more important success is to you, usually that's a sign that your base line happiness is a little bit lower. As ted turner put it, you'll never meet a super achiever anywhere who's not driven by at least some level of insecurity. For our ancestors, pop tidiof money, but having stuff was important. But now we live in this world with billions of humans, and no matter what stuff i buy, there's going to be better stuff next year produced by some other company. And so those products don't actually make me happy. They do nothing for me unless they're better than the products of those around me, and they give me this sort of status
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