Dennis Prager argues that happiness is a moral obligation rooted in daily small joys rather than intense, fleeting events like weddings or home remodels. He critiques the "happiness equilibrium," warning that major life changes often crash one's baseline, and explicitly claims feminism reduced women's well-being by prioritizing sameness over traditional roles as wives and mothers. Prager urges listeners to constantly evaluate if actions bring immediate joy, dismissing high-intensity pursuits in favor of consistent moderate happiness while promoting his book and Angel Media documentaries throughout the discussion. Ultimately, this framework suggests true fulfillment comes from avoiding disruption and embracing steady, manageable pleasures over grand societal shifts. [Automatically generated summary]
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Why We Must Be Happy00:03:22
Today's episode of Timeless Wisdom.
Why do I do this every week?
I do this every week because happy people make the world better.
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It's the Happy, Happy, Happy, Happy Air.
Hey, everybody, it's the Happiness Air on the Dennis Prager Show.
Every Friday at this time, come hell or high water.
I talk about happiness.
That's right.
And it begins with this music.
With this music.
Don't look at me, Alan.
All right, everybody.
Come on.
Let's go.
Everybody join in in your cars, in your homes, in your kitchens.
It's a happy, happy, happy, happy hour.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm listening.
I'm listening.
The email runs about 50 to 1 in favor of my singing along with this, Alan.
50 to 1.
And that's the ratio.
Once a year, I don't sing.
I listen to the listeners.
All right, everybody.
Why do I devote an hour every week to the subject of happiness?
And why is there a buzz in my ear which is driving me absolutely unhappy?
Oh, thank you.
All righty, everybody.
Why do I do this every week?
I do this every week because happy people make the world better.
And we have a moral obligation to be happy.
We owe it to everybody in our life our spouses, our children, our parents, our friends, our Coworkers, the person we sit next to on the airplane.
I am annoyed with the chronically unhappy.
You hear that, folks?
I have gone a long distance from sympathy to annoyance.
You're unhappy.
I'm really sorry for you, but by golly, we all have issues.
Thank you.
And we don't inflict it on others.
We owe others a happy disposition like we owe others to brush our teeth and take a shower.
Okay.
Now, from the world of the news of happiness, it's getting a lot more attention, incidentally.
The happiness issue is now, even in this article, which is from the Toronto Star of this past week, it's very interesting how they write in here while some see it as a soft subject, understanding happiness may be extremely relevant today, says moral philosopher Cicilla Bach.
Yes, exactly.
It's very relevant.
The Happiness Real Estate Rule00:09:24
It is not a soft subject.
I used to think it was.
Then I wrote a book on it, and in the course of the writing of the book, the book is titled Happiness is a Serious Problem, and I will admit it is a puzzle to me how you could enjoy this hour week after week and not read the book.
I don't care, and I mean it, I don't care if you get a used copy, but I don't understand why you wouldn't read it.
Okay.
Happiness is a Serious Problem, my book on happiness.
Having said that, we can move on.
There is a man at Harvard who has written a book on happiness, and he makes a lot of interesting points, good points, in fact.
Now, listen to this.
This is the way this article in the Toronto Star opens, and it is so valid.
Listen to this carefully.
Real estate agents say you should buy the worst house in the best neighborhood rather than the best house.
In a less wonderful or even bad neighborhood, but not bad, they don't say bad, in a less expensive neighborhood, right?
That is a rule of real estate purchasing.
Get the worst house in an expensive area rather than the best house in a cheap area or cheaper area, right?
I want you to know, very interestingly, my friends, I have never, ever followed that advice.
And by the way, have therefore not done particularly great in real estate.
I've done okay.
I mean, you can't do badly.
Real estate has gone up over the last quarter century, half century, ridiculously much, of course.
But you know why I never followed that advice?
I didn't want a crappy house.
I wanted to go to a nicer house, and I was prepared to have the nicest house in a neighborhood of houses cheaper than mine.
In other words, I didn't buy it by neighborhood.
I bought it by do I enjoy the house?
And I was instinctively following the advice that this man, this professor at Harvard, says listen, Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard University psychology professor, believes such a purchase is rarely a prescription for happiness.
Before you sign that offer to purchase, Consider how you'll feel coming home each day to a dump amidst the mansions.
It will make you feel bad because the brain is a difference detector.
Almost everything that it senses, it senses as a comparison.
Now, I happen to think there's a different reason.
I don't know if it's the comparison to the other homes that will make you less happy.
What will make you less happy is how much you spent and got so little for your house.
I don't agree with him on the reason.
I never compared my house to the other houses in the neighborhood.
Never.
I don't do that about life in general.
It's a very bad way to be happy.
Compare your life to everybody else's.
What I did was, I asked, do I enjoy this house?
But you're not going to enjoy the cheapest house in an expensive neighborhood because you could have gotten so much more house in a cheaper neighborhood.
So the question is do you buy your house to enjoy it or do you buy your house as an investment to make money?
And that is a philosophical question.
That goes to the heart of the question of what will increase your happiness.
And that's what this hour is about increasing your happiness.
You will not increase your happiness by buying a house you don't particularly like because it's a great investment.
You will particularly increase your happiness by buying a house you particularly enjoy coming back to every day.
And it may not increase in value the way the junkie house in a great neighborhood would.
But I don't live to make money.
20 years from now, 15 years from now, on the sale of my house.
I live today and tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day, and I want to enjoy the home that I come back to.
It doesn't do me any good not to enjoy my home, but to go, but every day to think, ah, but when I sell it, I'm going to really make more money than had I bought a house I enjoy.
Now, if that makes you happy, do it.
It doesn't make the vast majority of people happy because, as this professor correctly notes, what we really need are daily.
Joys.
Frequency, and this is a great line in this article.
This is again from this professor of psychology.
It's the frequency and not the intensity of positive events in your life that leads to happiness, like comfortable shoes or single malt scotch.
For him, it's single malt scotch, not for me.
I agree on the comfortable shoes.
Why do you think I talk about my stereo system so often?
Why?
That for me is a daily joy.
To hear music, which I so love so beautifully in my home, is a daily joy.
It's not, what does they say here?
It's not the intensity of positive events.
In fact, I want to tell you something.
I am not a fan of intensely positive events.
And I wrote this in my book.
It's so wonderful for me to see validated what I have written there.
I wrote the problem with ecstatic events, intensely positive, is that there's a come down afterwards.
I often ask people, say, how are you?
What's your happiness level on a scale of 1 to 10?
And I'm always afraid if somebody tells me 10, because 10s are followed by 1s.
I am a much bigger believer in a fairly consistent 7.5, maybe 8 if you're unbelievably lucky.
But I don't aim for any 9s and I don't aim for any 10s.
Never did, never do, and I assume never will.
The phone number is one eight prager seven seven six.
This goes to the heart of another rule that I have offered on happiness.
Ask the question, will it make me happy before you do anything?
Not is it fun?
Not will it make me money?
See, let's go back to the house.
You will make more money if you buy a cheap little house in a great neighborhood.
You will.
Because somebody will buy that from you for the real estate, not for the house, tear it down and build something nice.
That's true.
That's fine.
But you will not enjoy living in that house compared to a much nicer house in a less ritzy area.
You bought that house not based on the question, will living here make me happy?
You bought it on the basis of will living here, will buying this house make me money when I sell it?
Whoopee do.
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I'm Dennis Prager.
This is the Happiness Hour.
Every week, an hour on happiness.
And I'm bringing together a number of rules, including a new one taken from this psychologist.
It's the frequency and not the intensity of positive events in your life that leads to happiness.
That is so important.
That's a life changing experience.
I have spoken about that in the past, but never put it quite in those words.
And the words are important.
Tiny Joys Over Big Events00:13:24
I gave the real estate analogy, and I have a real estate agent calling in and disagreeing, which is perfect.
Margaret in Lakewood, Colorado, Dennis Prager.
Hi, Margaret.
Dennis, it's an honor.
Thank you, Margaret.
I have to tell you, I have read all of your books, and I have given a number of your happiness books away.
Thank you so much.
I hope you don't take them back now after hearing me.
No, I just think as far as The real estate section of it, you need a little clarification on this.
Okay.
I am a real estate agent.
Right.
And I say buy the worst house in the best neighborhood, not so you can live in a dump, but so you can turn it into your dream house.
And in the future, if and when you decide to sell that home, you are going to have so much more equity than what it was worth when you bought it.
As far as the frequency, Of the joy.
Nothing is more exciting than to buy a home in a good neighborhood that you like and turn that house piece by piece into your dream house.
It's a constant joy.
That's funny.
My view is there is nothing less enjoyable than repairing and remodeling your house.
Well, there are two types of buyers, too.
The one that doesn't have the time and wants to spend top dollar to move into a beautiful home, and then there's The general public who would just as soon save themselves $30,000 or $50,000 or $100,000 and strive to achieve.
I agree with you.
So let me say this and thank you so much, Margaret.
Let me say very clearly I don't care which you choose.
I'm telling you to choose based on what will bring you happiness.
That's the way to be guided in the happiness issue.
If you get happy, folks, getting a rundown home, And piece by piece remodeling it, then by golly, of course, that's what you should do.
To me, that is what people do in hell.
Okay?
I have owned many homes.
I can't stand it.
Because, number one, I have never in my life been with a contractor who came through on time.
There is one I heard somewhere in northern Michigan, in the peninsula area, the Upper Peninsula, but.
For some reason, he has a very long waiting list.
I just can't get to him.
So, having your home disrupted for the amount of time, even if they come in on schedule, for the amount of time your home is utterly disrupted by that remodeling, if you don't care and you love the thought of doing it, and I'm not being sarcastic, then of course you should buy such a home.
I need to tell you that I find no joy in remodeling a home.
None.
0.000.
And so, but if you do and you're like Margaret, you like that, then by golly, you should do that.
And if you get great happiness knowing that you're living in a less wonderful home than you could have gotten in a less wonderful neighborhood, because every day you're thinking, wow, when I sell this, I'm going to make a lot more money, then you should do that.
I don't get happy based on what's going to happen 10 years from now.
I don't.
That is not the way I live for and achieve happiness.
If that, however, remember, my criterion is not what makes Dennis happy.
It's what makes you happy.
I know what makes me happy.
That's part of the reason I am happy.
I know what brings me happiness.
That is why I got to believe one of the most important happiness hours I've done in the last year is where that German who wrote that book on happiness, and I saw the summary in Publishers Weekly, and it said his theme is, Know Yourself.
You cannot be happy if you do not know yourself.
We should really amplify on that.
First of all, if you know yourself, you know how you're coming across, you know how others will react to you, and you know to be relevant to the topic today, you know what brings you happiness.
And again, if knowing that the place that you're in, the house you live in, will bring you more money when you eventually sell it brings you happiness on a day to day basis, buy it.
It doesn't do it for me.
On a day to day basis, enjoying my house is what brings me happiness.
And so I will live in a less ritzy area, and I have always done that, always.
And I'm sure I could have made more money in real estate had I followed the real estate guide as opposed to the happiness guide.
All right, just again, there are two lessons today.
Two lessons in today's happiness course, number.
One, I don't know.
What do you think?
We've had about a 500th, I guess, broadcast of happiness.
Does that mean, yeah, I would say so.
10 years times 50.
That's a lot.
We've got to get those CDs out.
So, one of the projects we have to do really help people a lot.
Not to mention help me.
That was a pretty honest statement.
And today's lessons are ask, which I have told you many times ask, will it make me happy?
And B, the other lesson, which I have never put in these words, and I commend the author of these terms, this professor, Daniel Gilbert at Harvard.
And it's the frequency and not the intensity of positive events in your life that leads to happiness.
Alan goes to a coffee place every day, right, Alan?
You sit and you have, you know, you nurse your.
Coffee there, right?
No, I'm serious.
Isn't that a source of happiness for you?
He doesn't reach a 10 sitting in a coffee shop, but it gives you a seven and a half.
It gives you an eight regularly.
That's big.
That's very, very big.
This guy writes, in fact, and I believe him, he compares something to winning a million dollars.
He said, Yeah.
He has found that small pleasures like coming home to a house that you like.
Is more likely to yield long term joy than inheriting a million dollars, getting a big promotion, or being elected president.
I agree with that.
I agree.
That's my stereo.
That's my books.
That's my friends.
That's my Sabbath.
I mean, you know, that I have a holiday every week to look forward to.
You know, folks, I'm not proselytizing here, I never do that.
But I'm just telling you what works in my own life.
Starting Thursday night, do you know that I actually feel endorphins?
I mean it.
Knowing that this day with friends and family and away from the problems of the world is going to take over, it's a joy.
It's part of the reason I can do the happiness hour better on a Friday than on a Monday.
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Everybody in the studio is smiling.
How old is Kathleen?
How old?
Eight?
Even she's smiling.
You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show, The Happiness Hour.
So many ideas this particular hour.
I usually focus on one, but I can't this hour because there are so many lessons to be learned from this rule.
Offered by this psychologist, Daniel Gilbert, who's written a very fine book, apparently.
I don't know the book, but this is from it and his theory on the real estate purchase.
He says, Real estate agents say you should buy the worst house in the best neighborhood rather than the best house in a more modest neighborhood.
But he said, If you want to be happy, buy the better house because you'll enjoy that more.
Which is, I've always lived by that, and I didn't fully realize it because I realized.
Of course, there's an element of investment in any home.
You don't want to buy the best house in a crime infested neighborhood.
Of course not.
But there are less great neighborhoods that are not crime infested, and you'll get a better home.
Then there is the other issue here little joys regularly bring you much more happiness than some great joy once in a year or once in a lifetime.
Aim for daily joy.
Daily joy will make you happier.
You must find that.
You mothers out there, do not martyr yourselves because you will start self pitying.
You will start getting angry at your husband.
You will start getting angry at your kids.
You take an hour for a purely selfish pursuit every day if possible.
And it probably is possible.
It is very important to have a daily joy.
All righty, let's go to Liz in Dallas.
Hello, Liz.
Dennis Prager, thanks for calling.
Hi, Dennis.
I just think the world of you.
Thank you.
I've been a listener for five years, even though I'm pretty young still, and just have really valued what you've said about happiness.
Good, good, good, good.
I wanted to ask you a question.
I heard what you said about having tiny joys over.
A long time instead of big, intense joys.
And I'm really experiencing that right now because I'm coming off of my wedding.
And it was an extraordinary, joyful time.
And I would say before my wedding, I was maintaining that 7.5 on a happiness scale pretty much a lot of the time.
And after my wedding, I just had a hard time finding that constant pleasure.
Yeah, it disrupted.
You were completely disrupted in your pattern.
Yes.
That's what really happened with the wedding.
You know, it was an, you know, one could almost say an ecstatic moment for you when you went to the ultimate of a 10.
And every 10, it's in my book, it's a rule of life.
Tens are followed by ones.
Because life seeks, I guess, not a one.
If you've averaged 7.5 and you went to a 10, then you are now at a five.
Because that, you see, I believe in a happiness equilibrium.
You're a 7.5 person.
I am a 7.9 person, okay?
And, you know, even eight, even eight.
But not more.
That is my regular state.
And if I go to a 10, I'm going to go to a 6 to equilibrize, to make up a word, what I've done, or even lower sometimes.
And so I never seek ecstatic events.
I'll tell you another thing that I tell couples.
I'm not sure it's a great idea to go on a honeymoon right after the wedding.
First of all, there are other reasons for that because the expectations of the honeymoon can rarely be fulfilled by two normal human beings who have just been married and undergone the greatest change they will ever go except for having a child.
So, you know, have that to look forward to maybe another time.
But people do it, it's not the biggest deal.
But when were you married?
In April.
And you are still feeling it?
Yes.
Expectations vs Reality in Marriage00:11:35
Well, that is interesting.
Have you discussed it with your husband?
Yes, and he's really great.
He's really great about it.
And you're still in love?
We're very much in love.
Okay, it'll pass.
It will pass.
And just knowing that it's normal will so calm you that it'll pass.
Because you might be starting to get a little scared of it, which I could understand.
Thank you for asking me that.
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Usually on the happiness hour, I isolate one point.
Today, I have isolated one story and made a number of points.
So it's a different approach today to the happiness issue.
Welcome, I'm Dennis Prager, and this hour each week is devoted to the subject of happiness.
And the story that I gave was based on a Harvard psychologist who's written a book on happiness.
And he says, Daniel Gilbert, that though real estate agents say you should buy the worst house in the best neighborhood rather than the best house in a more modest neighborhood, he believes such a purchase is rarely a prescription for happiness.
And I happen to agree with him, but the point that I'm making is a lot of people will buy a house asking themselves, is this a good investment, much more than will I enjoy my house.
If you want to be happy, I believe that's a poor way to buy a house.
If you want to be richer, then it is a good way to buy a house.
But there are people for whom knowing that they have a good investment will be a daily source of happiness.
Then for you, it's a great buy.
But again, my rule is always ask the question.
It shouldn't be the only question you ask.
You also have to ask in life, is it right?
Is it ethical?
Is it decent?
Obviously.
But always ask in terms of happiness, will it make me happy?
You will choose to do very different things with your life.
As, for example, my best example, If you ask, will it make me happy?
You will watch much less television.
That's a fact.
Non TV watchers are happier than TV watchers.
Doesn't mean you should never watch.
I'm a moderate.
Oh, boy, I will never forget my son, who is getting married next month, my older son.
And my daughter's getting married the next month.
This is a busy summer for the Prager family.
Anyway, my older son tells the story, and he's a great raconteur, right?
He is truly funny.
Anyway, he mentions to me when he was in high school, a kid came over to him and said, Are you David Prager?
He said, Yeah.
Your father, Dennis Prager?
Yeah.
Well, let me tell you something.
Because of your father, we have no television in our home.
So my son said, Why not?
And he said, Well, my mother heard your father on the radio, listens to him regularly, and decided no TV in our house.
And my son looked at him and said, Gee, I'm really sorry to hear that.
We have satellite and cable with about 900 stations.
It was a dark.
All members of my family have a dark sense of humor.
But I've always thought, what a pitiful, sad moment for that boy, thinking, oh my God, Prager's own son.
Now, what I have taught them was there were very restricted times that TV was available, but it was available.
Now, I'm not telling any of you you should install it if you didn't.
Believe me, your home is.
Probably better off for none.
But it was very funny that that happened in that instance.
Anyway, of course, I'm anti TV and I watch it very rarely.
I think sports and tragedies.
Not even tragedies, I mean, you know, catastrophes like 9 11.
Or evils, if you will.
In any event, the question is will it make me happy?
Let's get some calls here.
Westchester, California.
Judy.
Hello, Judy Dennis Prager.
Hi, Dennis.
I'm just calling.
I've Listen to you for many, many years, and then I lost you for a while.
But my friend Harry told me where to find you.
God bless Harry.
I just want to tell you that my daughter and I just invested in a duplex in a very good neighborhood, and it was a total teardown dump.
Right.
And we have been putting the back unit together that she's going to be living in.
It is absolutely beautiful.
It has brought us closer together.
There you go.
And happiness that you can't believe.
And I believe you.
But we're going to live there.
I believe you.
I believe you.
This is my point, folks.
Just because.
Remodeling a home I'm living in brings me no joy does not mean it won't bring Judy and her daughter joy.
Thank God we all get happiness from different things, or we would have a very boring world.
I mean, there are people who like ballet.
What'd you think of that, Andre?
What'd you think?
I like ballet.
You like ballet?
I want to say this for the record.
I, when I was in college in New York City, I subscribed to the New York City Ballet to force myself to love ballet.
Because I wanted to expose myself to everything and give it at least a try.
I ended up watching the conductor the entire ballet.
And I realized this was not for me.
Now, that was a joke what I said earlier, the way I put it, but it is true.
I don't enjoy ballet.
Thank God there are people who do.
And I enjoy something else, and there are people who don't.
Right?
I mean, I love good pens.
Does everybody like good pens?
No.
Most people are happy to write with a 29 cent BIC.
That's fine with me.
What brings me pleasure will not bring you pleasure, and vice versa.
You want to tear down your house while you're living in it to enjoy the satisfaction of making it like you want it, seeing your investment go up?
God bless you.
But I don't.
That's why I'm just saying, know yourself.
I know me.
You know you.
My last caller knows herself.
She loves to.
She's having a ball fixing up that house with her daughter.
She did the right thing.
That's it.
That's it.
Linda, Chino Hills, California.
Dennis Prager, hi.
Hi.
Once I realized that the feminine myth was truly that a myth, and I decided to stop working, gave up my career as a police officer for six years.
You know what?
When we come back, I will explain.
Thank you, Linda.
I will explain why I believe, and I never engage in politics on the happiness hour.
I want everyone from left to right to be happy.
To enjoy this hour.
But I will tell you why I do believe feminism has reduced women's happiness.
Not all women's, but most women's.
When we come back, based on the call we just received from Linda, you're listening to The Dennis Prager Show, 1 8 Prager 776.
All righty, my friends.
Final segment of this edition of The Happiness Hour, and I'm going to summarize it in a moment.
But I promised I would explain why I believe that overall feminism decreased women's happiness.
Women didn't ask, and I'm tying it entirely into one of the themes of this hour.
Remember, I always say, ask the question, will it make me happy?
Women did not ask, will it make them happy?
They asked, will it make them successful?
And especially so, will it make them successful as men are successful?
The feminist question was never, will this make women happy?
It was, will it make women like men?
They called it equality, but it was really more sameness.
And it's not an attack, it's a description of a problem.
I'm not talking politics here, I'm talking philosophy and happiness.
If women asked really what will make them happy, they would have many different choices.
They think what will make them happy is a law degree or a job as a this or a job as a that.
But for most women, not Every single one ever made for most women being a wife and mother, and that doesn't mean they can't work, but being a wife and mother are central to their happiness.
And that feminism denied.
That is not central.
That was a patriarchal, sexist thing to tell you, but it decreased women's happiness because women became less in touch with themselves as a result.
For young women not to put marriage in the answer, what do you think will make you happy, but rather give vocational answers, means that they have distanced themselves from their natures and don't really know the answer, what will make them happy.
I began this hour with the story of the very simple statement made by this psychologist, Daniel Gilbert.
Real estate agents correctly, by the way, correctly say you will do better if you buy the cheapest house in a great neighborhood as opposed to the best house in a cheaper neighborhood.
But the question is not is it the best investment?
The question is will it make you the happiest?
And Daniel Gilbert and I say no.
For most people, it won't.
Because, and this was the great lesson of this hour, as he puts it, it's the frequency and not the intensity of positive events in your life that leads to happiness.
Frequency Not Intensity Matters00:01:48
I'm going to do a whole hour just on frequency, Alan.
Put that down.
That's so important.
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Every one of us makes mistakes in life.
There are two forms of mistakes.
There's a simple, honest mistake that almost you couldn't help making.
And there's a mistake you could have helped making, but you willed to do because you erred or you sinned.
Okay, so let's call it sinful mistake and non-sinful mistake.
Okay?
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