Gad Saad

So I would tell your son,

Knowledge is power, to our earlier point of you getting that degree.

You never lose in knowing more.

You being aware of the mismatch hypothesis, dear son, will allow you to hopefully not fall as easily into behavioral traps.

So I look at both decisions that we can make for happiness and mindsets.

So let me maybe discuss a few of each.

So by far, the two choices that will either impart upon me the greatest happiness or the greatest misery is choice of spouse and choice of profession.

And let's break it down very simply.

If I wake up next to a person in the bed and I go, oh, God damn, not this one again, I'm not off to a good start.

If I wake up next to that person and I go, oh, my God.

How did I pull that off?

What a delight to wake up next to this person.

Well, that's good.

Have they empirically measured this?

Not in the way I'm explaining the anecdote.

Now, if I go off, after I woke up to this lovely person, I go off and do things in my day-to-day activities.

that make me do existential glee.

Oh boy, what a great day I have lined up.

I'm going to be working on my next book.

I've got a diary of a CEO.