Hackin’ happiness
A room from Airchat's 2023 version, recorded as a video. The room's name is the title; the transcript below follows the video, and every time in it plays the video from that point.
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0:00 Happiness is about expectation management and acceptance. With those two, you should be able to have a consistent level of content. It doesn't mean that you don't have bad feelings or stuff happening to you, but you have a different approach to it, because you can always choose how you take things. You cannot control events, and that's part of acceptance. The happiness part comes where you are not expecting certain outcomes, because that puts pressure, and you may not get those things. I think that's part of the secret of happiness. If you need to hack it, if it's dependent on something external, some circumstances which are not in your control, and what is really in your control.
0:54 We cannot control our health either. We are not masters. Even our own bodies. So, those two concepts, expectations and acceptance, I think are pretty powerful, if you consider them.