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akira the don & naval ravikant - what is happiness lyrics

it is just one of those overloaded words
that means
different things to different people
so i’m not even sure
we’re communicating the same language
but
uh
what is happiness?
what is happiness?

i think it’s just basically
being okay with where you are
not wanting things to be different
than the way they are
not having the sense
that anything is missing in this moment
ironically
i think most people
if you were to ask them
when they wеre happiest
for a sustained pеriod of time
not for a brief moment
because pleasure can override happiness
and create kind of this illusion of happiness
but
if you ask people when they were happy
for a sustained period of time
they were probably doing
some variation of nothing
but then you get bored

what is happiness?
what is it
tell me what it is
i wanna know
tell me what it is
what is it
what is happiness?
what is it
tell me what it is
i wanna know
tell me what it is

if you just sit around all the time you get bored
so you want adventure
you want surprise
there’s the
funny thought experiment
of the bliss machine
suppose i could drill a hole in your head
and put an electrode in
put a wire in there
and it can stimulate
just the right part of your brain
and i can put you in bliss
you’ll just be in bliss
would you want that?
most people will say
“well, i don’t want that
i want meaning
“i don’t want just bliss
i want meaning.”
you’re like, “okay, well, i’ll
put an electrode in there
and i’ll give you meaning
how about that?”
if you
kind of run this thought experiment
long enough
i think most people realize
“actually, what i want is
i want surprise
i want the world to surprise me
and i want to wrestle with it
in ways
that are somewhat predictable
but somewhat not”
kinda end up back where you started

what is happiness?
what is it
tell me what it is
i wanna know
tell me what it is
what is it
what is happiness?
what is it
tell me what it is
i wanna know
tell me what it is

for some people
pure happiness is the ultimate goal
they wanna
just be
blissfully happy wherever they are
whenever they are
but i think other people
most people would say
“well, i’m here in this world
i’m here in this life
i don’t understand it
or why
but i want to be
i wanna be engaged
i wanna be surprised
i want to do things
i wanna accomplish things
to want things
aand then get them.”
that’s kind of the whole
game that we’re all playing here
if nothing worked out the way you expected
it was all serendipity
and you didn’t
want that
you would just be a ball of anxiety
on the other hand
if everything worked out
as you expected and wanted
you’d be so bored
you might as well be dead
so there’s some
the river of life
kind of flows through these two banks
and
enjoy it

what is happiness?
what is it
tell me what it is
i wanna know
tell me what it is
what is it
what is happiness?
what is it
tell me what it is
i wanna know
tell me what it is

- akira the don naval ravikant lyrics

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