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#365 BITESIZE | How to Become Happier Today | Mo Gawdat

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

CHAPTER

The Importance of Happiness

Happiness to me is described by a very simple mathematical equation. Really I say happiness is your events minus your expectations. So you could literally we were talking about Aston Martin's. You could actually buy an Aston Martin, sit in it and then feel unhappy. Because what your expectation is that when I pay that money to Aston Martin, I should be perfect. Which by the way, with all love for Aston Martin's is never true. The thing is happiness in that case is being okay with life. And if you're not okay with them, you're not going to be happy. Now take that and apply to everything, including the loss of a child. It's the most difficult.

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