Episode 42: Happiness, Derren Brown, Life & Death (Part 3 of 4‪)‬ Life And Life Only

The next part of this epic journey through Derren Brown’s book ‘Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine’ and the general topic of happiness takes us further into fate and accepting the downsides of life while finding its way back to some core themes of the book. These include our construction of narratives with little evidence, catastrophising and ‘mind-reading’ (ours, not Derren’s!).
We also look at those old enemies anger, fear & guilt, with a little help from our friends the Stoics, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and others. There’s a lot more along the way and I humble believe you will get a lot out of this if you listen with attention and an open mind and try to digest the occasionally complex but always accessible ideas in the book and the episode.
 
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episode links
Quotes about happiness
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/happiness
Types of happiness (online article) https://www.verywellmind.com/happiness-types-4173234
PDF of ‘On Anger’ by Seneca
http://www.sophia-project.org/uploads/1/3/9/5/13955288/seneca_anger.pdf
Derren talks about his book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrxrJyymG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DigsvZCXo
Derren’s TED talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/derren_brown_mentalism_mind_reading_and_the_art_of_getting_inside_your_head?autoplay=true&muted=true
TED talk- ‘The Paradox of Choice’
https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice?autoplay=true&muted=true