Naftali Horowitz — Foundations for Success

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[music] >> Welcome to Inside ArtScroll, where the books that we read and the people that write them come to life. It's a pleasure to welcome to ArtScroll Studios Naftali Horowitz yet again. >> Yet again. It's been a while. >> It has. So miles away congratulations on your second book. Your first book came out like six or seven years ago, correct? >> Yeah, six years ago. >> And now you've produced a masterpiece. I'm just saying from the guy who sat a whole plane ride and was glued to it. Foundations for success, a Torah path to happiness and true self-esteem. Can I just jump right in? >> Jump. >> I know that you addressed this and it's something which bothers me a lot. We have never ever had a society that has more. I mean, from people most families have more than one car. Many families have more than one home. They travel. They have a closet full of clothing and accessories and food options. Yet I just look at my childhood until today and people are not happier. They're much more miserable. What's what's happening? >> Right. It's it's it's why I wrote this book. I It's unfathomable what an unhappy society we have and it manifests itself in the number of people that are seeing therapists. As I write in the introduction, the the drug market, the antidepressant drug market. It manifests itself in the fact that we still in 2026 are at war. There's so much civil unrest. People there's so much hatred. There's

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1. 0:06[music] >> Welcome to Inside ArtScroll, where the books that we read and the people that…
2. 2:36said that money doesn't buy happiness, materialism doesn't buy happiness, only spirituality buys happiness. And we…
3. 5:09who bought a case of the books and gave it to every one of his grandchildren.…
4. 7:45say this because when I look back at the book I go, "Did I actually write…
5. 10:18financially certainly, um and I allow myself to feel that way at times, it keeps me…
6. 12:51their biggest struggles consume them. And when you're consumed by a struggle, it doesn't matter if…
7. 15:26>> coffee is not going to make you happy. >> Um in the book you address…
8. 17:58look at what they have >> That's right. >> versus what they don't have. But, it's…
9. 20:28I hate him. I hate him so much, and that's why I wrote two books. Because…
10. 22:59will ever happen." But somehow, they got their life together. >> It's so many of them.…

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