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AMP #196 Shinzen Young On The Mathematics Of Happiness

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

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Is There a Formula for Happiness?

Philosophy was aimed at finding udymonia, which in greek meant flourishing. In the west, what those ancient philosophers lacked great as they werea they didn't know that attentional skills could be systematically cultivated. That was the piece that was missing from the west, but present in the east, clarly in india. They reinforce each other. We are leaning into what human beings have been talking about ever since they were talking about anything. The earliest greek philosophers. It was not an abstraction.

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