Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Are we inherently supposed to be happy?🤔#bookthinkers #lifechangingbooks #martinotoole

4 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that humans are naturally inclined toward happiness, yet contemporary life systematically undermines this innate state. He describes how daily exposure to various forms of 'toxification'—including physiological (what we ingest), mental (media consumption), and spiritual (environmental influences)—combined with unfulfilling social interactions, creates pervasive unhappiness. The speaker notes a collective complacency and apathy, attributing it to the design of our environment rather than personal fault. He references his own book where he expands on these ideas and emphasizes that individuals have a conscious choice to observe and counteract these negative influences, urging active awareness as a path toward reclaiming happiness.

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are intrinsically happy. But I also believe we live in a time where everything is either by design or just coincidentally designed to cause us unhappiness. Through the entire day, we are subjected to energy and things that we put in our body, things that are going on around our body, things that we watch, things that we listen to. So we're subjecting our body and our psyche to so, so much toxification. And that could be physiological and mental and spiritual. So all of these things intrinsically make us unhappy. Our interactions with people make us unhappy, but we just tolerate them. I write about this in the book. For whatever reason, we've just, we've become very, very complacent and we're apathetic. And it's not our fault. You know, it's just this place we live in that's actually systematically bringing us down unless we choose to start observing all of that stuff. We have a choice, but we must, must, must make that conscious choice to start looking