Tim Ferriss

It is a huge country with so much diversity.

And I don't mean diversity in the DEI sense.

I mean diversity in the cultural sense, where if we take culture to be a shared set of beliefs and behavior, it's like going to Louisiana versus going to Upper Peninsula, Michigan versus going to Maine

they might as well be different countries.

Sure, we ostensibly have the same language, but they're really, really different.

So, I think the... the default baseline of happiness that I observe throughout the U.S.

varies quite a lot.

But I would say, if we're looking at countries, I don't know if I'm gonna get myself into hot water with some folks, but this is just what I've observed.

I would say that...

where you have rich social fabric and human interactions combined with some sense of safety.

There are different types of safety you could have.

That could be physical safety.

That could be a social net of some type with healthcare, as would be the case, say, in Denmark, for instance.

Those things combined,

which offer a certain level of predictability.

Not predictability across the board, but... I'm not sure how heavily to weight various polls and happiness reports, but you might have, say, for instance, a few years ago, you had Singapore, which is a fascinating little country, right?

A little postage stamp, but, like, from swamp to what it's become is fascinating.

So Lee Kuan Yew and so on.

Nonetheless, like highly structured, quite strict, predictable, but purportedly a high level of self-reported happiness.

Okay.