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Doctor Mike

πŸ‘€ Speaker
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8866 total appearances

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Where young people go to retire?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

No.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Yeah, that's a funny show.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Wow.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

That's a Fred Armisen show.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Yeah.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

There's a lot.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

There's a lot.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Number one, that your happiness is a feeling.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And so therefore you have to actually chase a feeling to become happier.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And that's wrong.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Your feelings, once again, are evidence of your happiness and that you need to manage your feelings and actually be more and more comfortable with the fact that a lot of your feelings are unpleasant.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And that's actually part of the process of getting happier and being a happier person.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Furthermore, happiness requires unhappiness.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And the more that you try to eliminate your discomfort, the more you're actually going to eliminate your happiness itself, which is critically important.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And again, there's all that study, all those studies on back pain, for example.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

The more that you try to baby your back, the more back pain you're going to wind up having.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Big time.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

But people do it all the time.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

It's just they make that mistake constantly.