be happy 2.0
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How to be happy without spending money. In cities, we live in a distorted reality, out of tune with our own natural systems. Hence, we aren't happy. This is a simple set of ways to be happy and healthy.TRANSCRIPT
Be Happy 2.0
How to be happy
without spending money.
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Happiness is made of
a few chemicals in your brain.
Serotonin is the most well-known
... so we'll stick to it for now.
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While that does not mean
that you're allowed to exploit others,
... it is also very useful to know.
... or treat others as objects,
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Why can't we be happy ...
the old, traditional way?
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Can <pleasure> make you happy...
If you are asleep?
If you are sick?
If you have a gun to your head?
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You don't need chemicals / crack
You don't need expensive stuff
You don't need continuous pleasure
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Why demand more all the time?
Marketers' theories are designed to control your happiness
But that's only if you believe them
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Why compare with Tom, Dick, Harry?
Why aim to be Bill Gates?
Why compete with ”high society”?
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You're always paying someone else
For serotonin from your own brain
To be released into your own brain!
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You should control when you're happy
The market gives a 1000 theories
Because they want your money
By making you “feel good”
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Instead try these things:
Family, friends, pets
A walk in the woods
With nature, without commercials
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Nature's simple pleasures
... have worked for millenia
You just can't hate a cute baby!
Babies! Puppies! Kittens!
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Flowers, brooks, breeze
Mountains, lakes, valleys
It's all free!
Pure, clean and trustworthy.
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You just need to leave the couch
Forget the TV
Put off the cell phone
Forget the ”corporate ladder”
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Go meet friends regularly
Walk in parks daily
Do some pleasant stretching
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Walk dogs and play with cats
Play some outdoor sport
Old folks have great stories
Listen to them, you learn a lot
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All those are free / cheap.
If you don't do some of those,
the marketers are always waiting.
Don't pursue things that they control
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Work must be fun
Play with your work
Make changes, try new stuff
Work doesn't have to be ”hard”
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Don't allow them
... to control your serotonin
Your brain, your computer, your code
Your beliefs, not copies of theirs
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Be happy
Live cheap, save a lot
Think well, read a lot
Be peaceful, smile a lot
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Remember ...
Don't pay them ...
For your serotonin !