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Happiness Isn’t the Goal — Joy Comes From How You Live
Happiness gets treated like the finish line — something you’re supposed to reach and then hold onto. But happiness is an emotional state, not a stable condition. It rises and falls with sleep, stress, health, relationships, and circumstance. When people aim their lives at feeling happy, they often end up frustrated or self-blaming when those feelings inevitably shift. The problem isn’t effort or mindset. It’s mistaking a temporary state for a sustainable goal.
This episode argues for a different target: stability. Not emotional numbness, not forced positivity, but an internal posture that…
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