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How to Be Happy

I am very happy. I can tell you some of my personal thoughts on the philosophy of happiness:

1. The physiology of happiness

First– happiness starts in the body. To be physiologically happy is a necessary pre-requisite. For example, even if you were a trillionaire, but if you had horrible physical health, had no energy, was massively over-fat, no muscle … wouldn’t you feel miserable?

Then it seems we should prioritize the body and our physiology over our ‘mind’. My theory:

When the mind is unhappy, it is because the body is unhappy.

2. A more difficult life is a happier life

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Another thought —

A happy life ain’t about a life without pain and suffering. No — a life of happiness is a life of challenge, danger, and interest.

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The happiest life is a life with interesting challenges, a life with randomness, chaos, and chance.

3. Artistic creation and fruitfulness

Another thought on happiness —

I am happiest when I make art!

Thus it seems the more we can make art, the happier we will be.

This means —

Pursue your artistic creation!

To be happy is to be active. To act. To make stuff, and do stuff!

4. What should I make or create?

Be like a child! Pursue any artistic interests of yours! For example my interest in car design.

Or my interest in calligraphy.

Of course; photography!

5. The joy of walking!

The biggest secret:

The joy of fresh air and being able to walk a lot!

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6. Is mood the same thing as happiness?

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Not necessarily. For example, when someone tells me something that makes me mad, of course I will feel the physiology of anger for perhaps 3 hours or so. During that time I am angry, but that doesn’t necessarily my life is bad. I am still technically “happy”, even though I am in a bad mood.

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Also this is the funny thing —

I can be experiencing much hardship, difficulty and pain, but I can still be ‘happy’.

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Then the question —

What is happiness anyways?

7. My thoughts on happiness

Generally speaking, I think freedom is happiness.

For example, freedom of self-expression. Freedom of speech. Freedom of movement. Freedom to do what I desire (within normative legal bounds) and the freedom to NOT do what I don’t care for.

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I will fight for my personal freedom tooth and nail. This is what led me to entrepreneurship and becoming self-employed.

8. Why freedom?

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To me, the greatest joy is creation. Creating art-work. To write. And I want to create and live without any boundaries!

9. Is happiness overrated?

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To me, the ultimate point of life isn’t to maximize happiness. To me it is maximizing your human potential. To maximize your creative production. To me, happiness is simply a means to FURTHER creative productivity.

ERIC

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