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Don’t Chase Happiness · The Search

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  SPEAKER_00: Don't chase happiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It only creates problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm big on coherence.
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  SPEAKER_00: When something feels off, I want to understand why.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm pretty good at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But lately, I've found myself analysing everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why do I feel this way?
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  SPEAKER_00: What happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: What can I change?
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  SPEAKER_00: What can I fix?
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  SPEAKER_00: At some point, something that usually helped me started working against me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was exhausting.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yesterday, I tried an experiment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead of trying to have a good day, I gave myself permission to have an okay one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hell, I was willing to accept meh.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was the goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: That evening, I went to play pickleball.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't a great night.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't a bad night either.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: At some point, I caught myself thinking, man, this is just an okay night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then it hit me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait, that was the goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had set out to have an okay day, and here I was, having one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mission accomplished, and almost immediately, I felt myself getting happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing about the night had changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same night, same games, same everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: But somehow, what had been an okay day suddenly felt like a great one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turns out, when I stopped chasing happiness, it found me.