Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

Increase happiness by creating your own values.

26 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Joe Polish argues that human happiness arises from developing a personal value system rather than simply adopting someone else’s (for example, copying an author). He emphasizes applying ideas to one’s own life, situations, and desires to form an authentic philosophy; otherwise a person risks living someone else’s life. The remark is framed as practical advice drawn from Polish’s own experience.

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Human happiness comes from developing your own value system, not adopting someone else's. Because if you. And most people, they'll read a book and they'll try to take that author's stuff and make it their own, versus taking it and applying it and developing their own value system with it. And it's. You're not ever you. If you don't develop your own philosophy, if you don't apply it to your own life, your own situations, your own desires, and then you end up, you know, living someone else's life. Yeah. So it's. Yeah. Develop your own value system. I think that's powerful. Yeah, it is. It's worked well for me. I think about it all the time.