Chris Budd

And there is lots of research.

It's been 2,500 years.

All of humanity, people have been thinking about this.

Buddhists sat down in a grove of trees 2,500 years ago and worked it all out.

So this is nothing new here.

This isn't my thinking.

This is all the research that's out there.

And the answer is self-worth.

That's a really big source of well-being, right?

Feeling content with yourself.

And there's two types of that.

We can have internal or external self-worth.

External self-worth is when you get your self-worth from other people.

So if you buy a big expensive car because you want to be seen driving a big expensive car, then you've got to have somebody looking at you in that car to get your self-worth.

If there's nobody looking at you, you've got to keep driving around until you find somebody else to look at you, right?

But if you drive that big expensive car because you love cars and you don't need to be seen, you just love sitting in it, that's fine.

That's internal self-worth.

Better examples might be creativity or purpose.

So that's step two, understanding the sources of joy and wellbeing.

Step three is then how does that apply to me?