This Is Allegedly the Happiest Man on the Planet: Find Out Why

Learn wisdom from the happiest man on the plant: Armando Fuentes Aguirre, "the Wise One," who reminds us that 90 percent of happiness is the pursuit of simple contentment — actively appreciating the good around us. The more we can take the focus off ourselves and forget our own problems, the happier we’ll be.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I was in the tub, and remember the guy
who created the study of the blue zones on the planet.
He just was on Dan Mutener. He's just on the shelf, right.
So anyway, he found places on the planet, did a
document around Netflix about where people live the longest and
what they all have in common. So after he was

(00:20):
on the air with us, he goes, oh, I've heard
about the happiest guy on the planet. I'm like, tell
me more, who's that, Kevin Hart? I don't know. He goes, uh, No,
there's a guy named Armando Fuentes. So I start to
look him up. Happiest man in the world, he's been called,
and then I jotted down on my little notepad some

(00:41):
of his philosophies to tell you two about Tell me,
I know he was in all the great stuff comes
in the salt bathroom. I can't read my writing lives. Yeah,
so the guy happiest man in the world, he says
from his writings, eat without gluttony, drink without getting drunk,

(01:05):
love without jealousy, argue when you need to, but never
go to bed mad, and occasionally, with great discretion, misbehave.
Oh I like that one. It's cute. It's kind of like,
be spontaneous. What does that mean, don't be boring? Probably

(01:27):
what you do with Robbie that we don't know about.
Nice and we move on. Nice on Air with Ryan Seacrest.

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