This is the most click baity click bait of life. First of all, spoiler alert, there are no 3 rules. Some of this is pretty insightful though.
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Episode Transcript
All right, the world's happiest Man shares his three rules
for life. This is in the interview.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
How did he become named the world's happiest man?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
But we will take questions after the presentation, if you
could sit down please. So this guy, Matthew Ricard. He's
an ordained Buddhist monk and internationally recognized best selling author
of books about Altrountism, animal rights, happiness and wisdom. He's
the French interpreter to the Dali Lama.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
So a Buddhist monk is the world's happiest man, not
a chain smoking drug addict, pot loot car dealer.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
As it turns out, yes, he also holds a PhD
in cellular genetics. Ah, I was going to get one
of those Holy cow. In the early two thousands, researchers
at the University of Wisconsin found that Ricard's brain produced
gamma waves, which have been linked to learning, attention, memory,
at such pronounced levels that the media named him the
world's happiest man. That's very silly, as he says, that's ridiculous.
(00:56):
And here's where, here's where it gets unsatisfy. Then it
ultimately ends up pretty satisfying. And we'll post this at
Armstrong and getdy dot com so you can read it yourself.
So the headline in the New York Times is the
world's happiest man shares his three rules for life. So
the guy the author mentions the journalist, I've been meditating
(01:17):
twice a day for probably fifteen years. It's helping. Blah
blah blah blah. Well this stuff ever go away, the
stupid concerns the angers of the day. And the monk says, well,
they can't absolutely. You know, I was once on the
India Today conclave. They said, can you give us the
three secrets of happiness? I said, first, there's no secret. Second,
there's not just three points. Third, it takes a whole life.
(01:38):
But it's the most worthy thing you can do. So
that headline, they ought to be jailed for that headline.
It's like that second paragraph of the article, he says,
there's no three secrets. That's stupid.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
They should be I mean that is that is that
crosses some sort of clickbait line.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, that's if you're gonna ban hate speech. I mean
that's like article fraud or something.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I don't know. It's terrible. Yeah, you're you're breaking the
clickbait rules. So if you're gonna have a story and
the clickbait headline is I got fired because my two
my boobs are too big, And then you click on
the story and it's a picture.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Of an old car right on right where the boobs.
And if you say these seven occupations are the best
you can work at, number four will blow your mind.
Number four ought to be at least somewhat surprising. All right,
are you used?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You lose your.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
License for clickbait, and the time we have left, I've
got to make this extremely short. But again you can
follow up at armstrong and Geddi dot com. The guy
talks about meditate on compassion, compassion for all people at
all times, even evil people. Concentrate on feeling compassion for
how they got that way. It will bring you happiness
(02:53):
and enlightenment. You will find yourself thinking mercifully, wanting to
help people. It's just it's a long story, sharks.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So don't wish for your enemies to be slain.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
No like I do. No, probably not that here lies
there anyway. I enjoy every moment of life, but of
course there are moments of extreme sadness, especially when you
see so much suffering. But this should kindle your compassion,
and if it kindles your compassion, you go to a stronger, healthier,
more meaningful way of being. That's what I call happiness.
(03:26):
It's not as if you jump for joy all the time.
Happiness is more like your baseline.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, the definition of happiness is all out of whack
for one thing, and then who should call it contentment
instead of happiness?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Time to put it back in whack.
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