James Rickardson

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All In The Mind · On happiness—notes from prison · 21 Jul 2019 podcast

And some of us have hormonal imbalances that affect our moods and so on.

Some of us get bigger doses of dopamine and oxytocin and so on than others.

Some people need to take medication in order to balance out their hormones.

So I'm curious about the

the biochemical aspects of happiness.

I'm curious about the philosophical questions that arise and have arisen since time immemorial about what is important in life.

And I think we all kind of understand that the most important thing in life is love.

The love of our children, the love of our parents, the love of our brothers and sisters, and and a love that kind of extends outwards to

the whole world, basically.

If I do make my television series, one of the series of images I'd love to include in it would be young children and their mothers and fathers, babies.

Anybody who's had a baby and a young child and looks at a baby, a young child, laughing, smiling, encountering the world, discovering things,

The unadulterated joy of a child, I think, is is what we all long for, in a way.

And that most of us go looking for it in the wrong

areas when it comes down to it, children, babies and children, what they want is to be loved, they want to be held, they want somebody to look them in the eyes, to make them feel important and so on.

I think all of us are basically just grown up children pretending to be adults.

And and our needs are basically the same as children's are.

I think it's that simple.

All the other stuff, where you live, what your job is, how much money you've got, whether you're tall, short,

Short, fat, thin, ugly, beautiful, whatever, all that's kind of incidental stuff.

And I think everybody kind of understands that, but somehow or other we all get conned into believing that we need all this other stuff.

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