Tim Ferriss

Then you take that and you compare it to say Denmark, and you could point out a lot of differences, but if you talk to Danes about why they might rank highly on these happiness report cards,

you'll get some serious responses, mostly around, like, the social safety net, frankly, specifically as it relates to healthcare, I would say.

And physical safety, so they don't have to worry about their kids running around outside, et cetera.

I did have one friend

because you might guess from the size of my head, I've got some Scandinavian genes.

So one of my Danish friends, he was like, I said, why are you guys so happy on these reports?

And he goes, low expectations.

Now, I think there's actually something deeply profound about that in a way.

Low expectations?

Well, if happiness is... If happiness is...

and I'm not the first person to come up with this, but reality minus expectations, it's like, well, you can work on both of those, right?

What do you expect?

What do you feel entitled to versus your reality?

And you can work on either side.

if that is in fact.

Do you think entitlement is the same as high expectations?

They're not the same.

They're not the same.

I would say that entitlement is a perverted type of high expectations.

in excess.