Dr. Calm discusses where happiness really comes from, arguing it's internal rather than found in drugs or material things. He introduces the concept of stress-busting candy as a way to think about managing tension from within.
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My first question is, Dr. Kom, if you could create a stress busting candy for world peace, what flavor would it be? Hmm, that's an interesting question. Everyone would like the same flavor. Some might like vanilla flavor, some maybe chocolate flavor. But what should be in the candy probably is more important than what flavor it is. Don't you think so? Yeah, I think the candy should be filled with happiness chemicals. Yeah, like dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin. Oxytocin is also called love hormone. Makes you feel loved, makes you feel like, elicit that feeling. So maybe we should have all those things in the candy. What do you think? Yeah, I agree. I wish there was a candy like that. There are a lot of candies like that out there. They're called drugs. Like, you know, people use all the drugs to get these chemicals created in the body. And you see what happens. People get addicted to those drugs. So this whole idea of candy for happiness I don't think is a good idea. Doesn't matter what flavor it is, because true happiness is already within. You don't need to take anything from outside to find that happiness. This world leads us to believe that we need that to be happy. We need this to be happy. You need to accomplish that. You need a good relationship, you need lots of money, bigger car, bigger house, sometimes alcohol, smoking, drugs to give that feeling of happiness. But you all know the truth is all those things outside will only give you temporary happiness that lasts maybe a few minutes, maybe few hours, and at most a few days. And after that you feel again not so good. May be depressed sometimes. And so your mood goes up and down, up and down like this. And people depend on external things to bring up their mood. But what I'm saying is that mood stabilizer is within you. And when you tap into that inner self of yours, you maintain this happy mood consistently. Even when you fall down. You know where to go within and then come back up quickly. If the world adopts this ideology, inner peace, inner happiness, and becoming less dependent on external situations for their happiness. And everyone, everyone will be happy. There'll be less conflict, there will be less war, there'll be less problems. And we'll handle whatever problem that we have gracefully. So no candy for you, okay?
