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The Brutal Truth About Happiness That Nobody Wants to Talk About
Why Chasing Happiness Is a Losing Game
If there’s one thing, I’ve learned that I didn’t know in my twenties. It’s this:
We chase the wrong definition of happiness.
We think we know what will bring us lasting happiness, but we’re often dead wrong.
Every day, I see LinkedIn influencers posting about “10 morning habits of happy people” or “How to hack your way to happiness.”
And guess what? They’re selling you snake oil.
The Facade of Happiness
You won’t create lasting happiness by buying a $2,000 course, no matter how many bonuses you get with it.
You won’t get it from the latest, greatest productivity app either.
In some ways, we make achieving happiness much tougher than it is. When you get to the heart of the matter, it’s both harder and simpler than you think.
The Two Pillars That Changed Everything
Years ago, a website I wrote for asked me to interview 20 entrepreneurs and quiz them about their thoughts on happiness, whether they had achieved it, when they did, and how.
I also spent hours poring through books and articles, studying what made people happy.
After all that work, I came away with two fundamental truths that you rarely hear or read about. They are:
- Radical self-love
- The power of natural light
Let me break this down for you.
