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People Approaching in Airports
00:06:01
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| The number of people in this country who have to hide what they believe is in the many tens of millions. | |
| I try not to politicize the happiness hour, but politics impinges terribly, unfortunately. | |
| Over the course of the last few years, during the time when life was normal and you could... | |
| Travel normally. | |
| And I had lectures just about every week and flew just about every week. | |
| People would come over to me in airports. | |
| There has not been a time in decades that I have not been approached at an airport by at least one person. | |
| And in the last few years, something very ominous has taken place. | |
| People will look around before they say anything to me. | |
| And then, in a hushed voice, tell me that they are conservative or supported the president at the time, President Trump. | |
| That Americans need to look around before they tell you their political preference is new in American history. | |
| So that means, getting back to my theme, that a lot of you hide who you are much of your life. | |
| Like at work. | |
| That is not a happiness-inducing situation, is it? | |
| So, in light of that, you need to find Kindred Spirits. | |
| I told you, I think, I had this dream of starting KindredSpirits.com Anyway, I've told you all of my life with regard to the Happiness Hour that We should date for friends like we dated for a spouse. | |
| But I think that people are self-conscious about doing so. | |
| What's the matter? | |
| You can't find a friend? | |
| You have to go on the internet? | |
| I don't know why not. | |
| What's the difference where you find a friend? | |
| The trick is to find them. | |
| And to speak with them and to open up to them. | |
| It's a health benefit, apparently. | |
| Having friends is the equivalent of adding to life what not smoking cigarettes adds. | |
| That's what I think I read a number of times. | |
| Having a religious community or a religion, active in a religion, adds years to your life. | |
| Apparently having a dog does. | |
| I have all three. | |
| I should live forever. | |
| I do smoke cigars. | |
| That, I believe, does add to my life because of the relaxation and the risk. | |
| The risk versus relaxation ratio is pretty high in the direction of relaxation. | |
| The happiness hour during this period of difficulty, to understate the case, is asking what you have worked out. | |
| And have you taken my advice? | |
| That's a call I'd really love to take. | |
| Yeah, you know what? | |
| I took your advice, Dennis. | |
| Looked for kindred spirits and people I could actually open up to. | |
| 1-8 Prager 776. 877-243-7776 is the number to reach me. | |
| It is a challenging time. | |
| You know, this is the way I look at it. | |
| In the micro, in our personal lives, for most people, there are real challenges to happiness. | |
| A child who is difficult A parent who is difficult, a troubled marriage, personal finances. | |
| I mean, there are so many arenas, somebody's health in my life, including perhaps your own. | |
| But we have, as Americans, generally been able to isolate the pain inducers, the happiness reducers. | |
| Or challengers, if it might be a better word, to the micro, to those personal issues. | |
| Yeah, well, is it a challenge to my happiness? | |
| Or I'm not so happy these days because, and then you fill in, my child, my parent, my spouse, my marriage, my health, my income. | |
| But it's my, it's my, it's been for most... | |
| We have taken for granted that the country, the society, will not be a source of pain and misery. | |
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An Amazing First
00:01:03
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| The American way of looking at things was, let the state leave you alone so that you can have your own problems. | |
| That's basically the view. | |
| Nobody guarantees happiness. | |
| But that is no longer the case. | |
| I certainly, speaking for myself, 98.43% of my unhappiness to the extent that I have it, and I do, and I combat it, and I act cheerful, is induced by what's happening in my society. | |
| It's an amazing thing. | |
| This is a first for most Americans that the state is impinging directly on their Happiness level. | |