This Way to Happiness
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Happiness is more than a feeling or a state of mind. There are real, practical steps you can take to get on the path to a happier life—one with lasting contentment and fewer regrets. Gad Saad, a professor of marketing at Concordia Univ., popular podcaster, and author of The Saad Truth About Happiness, shares seven ways to maximize your happiness.
Script:
I recently had the great classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson on my YouTube show, The Saad Truth.
Victor ended our conversation with the following: “It’s so nice to see an academic who smiles. I don’t do it enough, but you do.”
His comment moved me deeply. Sure, my positive demeanor is partly my nature. But, like everyone else, I’ve had my share of misfortune and disappointment. I grew up literally in the middle of a war zone in Beirut, Lebanon. I had a promising future as a soccer player kicked out from under me by a devastating injury. I’ve lost coveted teaching positions because of my iconoclastic political views. The list of personal setbacks is very long. So, I’m sure, is yours. That’s just the way it is. And we all know it.
But I refuse to let life beat me down. I don’t want to be unhappy five minutes longer than necessary. Life is too precious and too short. To that end, I’ve given the subject of happiness a lot of thought.
Here are seven ways to maximize your happiness.
One: Find the right spouse
The most important person in life is your spouse, so choose wisely. He or she is also the person you are going to spend the most time with. This is why liking your spouse is even more important than loving them, although thankfully the two usually go together. Spending time with someone with whom you share values, who is your best friend, is bliss. Spending time with someone who doesn’t share your values is torture. Navigating relationships, even the best ones, is a tricky business. So, approach your marriage with humility. You’re not perfect and neither is your partner.
Two: Work your way to the right profession
Most of the time you don’t spend with your spouse and your family, you spend at work. A job that you find fulfilling and meaningful means that you’re spending a good part of your day in a happy mental state. The opposite is also true. Nothing (outside of a bad marriage) will make you more miserable than a workplace you can’t stand.
Three: Seek the sweet spot
What is the sweet spot? To understand that, you need to understand the inverted U curve, perhaps the most useful diagram ever conceived. The optimal functioning of human brains and bodies adheres to the inverted-U curve. Take, for example, perfectionism. If you lack any perfectionist bent, say as an author, you will lack the careful attention to details that constitutes an important element of the creative process. On the other hand, if you are too much of a perfectionist, you will spend an inordinate amount of time distracted by minutiae that no one cares about. Somewhere between apathy and perfectionism lies the sweet spot. You can apply the inverted U curve to every aspect of your personal and professional life. Not too much. Not too little.
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You're talking about suffering in life.. With all respect.. You want to learn what is suffer? See my life… Job from the Bible… Compare to mine.. Was 7 stars hotel life!
I think it’s gay how gay y’all are… what with your gayness.
Trump disapproves.
Glue your butt checks shut as penance
Find a spouse you like? Find a job you like? Whoa, who would have thought these would be so important for happiness? Thank goodness there's a deep thinker like Gad Saad to share such profound knowledge with us all!
Its a shame "be a good person" wasnt even thought of once …and thats all you needed to know..i dint bekieve this dude is happy.
Jesus is the only way, there is no other way to happiness, you people don’t know that you are poor, miserable, blind and dumb.
Happiness is, as Dennis says, our responsibility so lets get to it.
This man is an awesome teacher! I learned soooooo
much from him just in 5 minutes!
Thaks for these!!
Don’t worry be happy….
Thanks for the tips.
Thanks
I always like a little Saad truth.
Prof, you lost me on point 1. Find a good spouse in 2023? Feminism = cancer, that is all
Reposted on FB.
Dennis Prager reminds us what conservativism used to be all about:
-Happiness
-Patriotism
-Intellectual honesty
-Individualism
etc.
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Ask support every houre from The true God the one and only who created you and the sun, moon , night , moring and stars.
Love this man. Thank you for all you do, Mr. Saad.
Sadly, this list does not apply to most people.
What do you do if you cant find the right woman to marry, and hate your job so much you quit….and now are in between jobs??
I’d add volunteering, it’s where I’ve found great joy.
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One of the best videos by Prageru!
I wish they couldve made this video sooner.
Wow! Prof. Saad. Looking lean and svelte these days!!
I feel because of social media and the fake lives that allways seem better than yours makes many people feel unhappy. And the contacts witg old amd others than the ones actually in ones daily life also makes that those people and your real life get less attention.
Never thought that with all this knowledge at ones fingertips people would be dumber than ever because they feel like they know things…..even schools are now pumping out highly educated people that know nothing really…
Good info. You look great too. Good job on your weight loss.
About time the Gad Father made his feature here!!!
#1 – Find the right spouse…
Me, being 26 and having never even had a girlfriend😐
The Gad Father is a champion of free speech and individual liberty.
Great advice.